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What is the historical reason why Bahasa Indonesia and Bahasa Melayu are mutually intelligible despite the extremely large geographic spread while Tagalog and Cebuano in the Philippines are closer together yet are mutually unintelligible with each other and with both Bahasas?

by /u/TheIenzo in /r/AskHistorians

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