Bahasa Binan (or Bahasa Béncong) is a constructed dialect of Indonesian originating with the gay community. It has several regular patterns of word formation and is documented in both writing and speech. One pattern of word formation modifies standard Indonesian roots (normally comprised of two syllables) to have e as the first vowel and ong closing the second syllable—hence providing regular, a male homosexual.

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  • Bahasa Binan (or Bahasa Béncong) is a constructed dialect of Indonesian originating with the gay community. It has several regular patterns of word formation and is documented in both writing and speech. One pattern of word formation modifies standard Indonesian roots (normally comprised of two syllables) to have e as the first vowel and ong closing the second syllable—hence providing regular, a male homosexual. Another word formation pattern adds -in- infixes to other Indonesian roots, for example: the casual word for Westerner, bule, becomes binuline. Bahasa Binan also uses a range of standard Indonesian words with altered meaning. The standard word for "cat", kucing, is used in Bahasa Binan to denote a male prostitute. Another word with wide currency in Bahasa Binan, but actually typical of standard Indonesian informal word formation, is waria from wanita (woman) + pria (man), meaning "transvestite".
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  • Bahasa Binan (or Bahasa Béncong) is a constructed dialect of Indonesian originating with the gay community. It has several regular patterns of word formation and is documented in both writing and speech. One pattern of word formation modifies standard Indonesian roots (normally comprised of two syllables) to have e as the first vowel and ong closing the second syllable—hence providing regular, a male homosexual.
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