Why is Indonesia in Latin alphabet?

Often, their languages go with them. Sometimes, the colonizers even pass laws outlawing native languages or scripts. In this case, the Dutch colonized Indonesia and brought the Latin alphabet to the islands, starting with the establishment of the first permanent Dutch settlement in Java in 1603.

What is the alphabet in Singapore?

The modern Malay or Indonesian alphabet (Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore: Tulisan Rumi, literally “Roman script” or “Roman writing”, Indonesia: Aksara Latin, literally “Latin script”), consists of the 26 letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

Why is the Latin alphabet still used in Europe?

Most if not all the area of Europe which uses the Latin alphabet was once part of the Roman Empire, and used Latin as the language of trade even if it wasn’t the native language (much like English today). Many European languages (the Romance family) are direct descendants of Latin, so not surprising they’d keep the alphabet as well.

Why is there so much alphabetic confusion in eastern Asia?

So the basis for alphabetic confusion in Eastern Asia is basically that it started as a conceptually similar use of a non-phonetic alphabet, which is very vulnerable to regional divergence, and different lands used different means to eventually cope with this and change it to a regionally acceptable phonetic alphabet.

What is the distribution of Indo-European languages in Asia?

Ethnolinguistic distribution in Central/Southwest Asia of the Altaic, Caucasian, Afroasiatic (Hamito-Semitic) and Indo-European families. The major families in terms of numbers are Indo-European and Indo-Aryan languages and Dravidian languages in South Asia and Sino-Tibetan in East Asia. Several other families are regionally dominant.

How is Asia similar geographically close to Europe?

Asia is 4.4 times bigger than Europe by land area; that not “similarly geographically close” at all. Furthermore, each of your Asian examples belong to a different language family. In contrast most European languages are Indo-European, and yet many uses the Cryllic script, not Latin.