Soeara

Soeara is a term that appears in Indonesian and Malay linguistic and historical sources. It is most often encountered as an older orthographic variant of the modern word suara, which means voice, sound, or expression in contemporary Indonesian and Malay.

In colonial-era orthography, Indonesian and Malay texts used the Latin alphabet with digraphs such as oe to represent certain vowel sounds. In that spelling system, the word can appear as soeara in a number of publications, dictionaries, and manuscripts from the 19th and early 20th centuries, reflecting the orthographic conventions of the time. The form is primarily of historical interest, illustrating how spelling has evolved rather than signaling a distinct modern meaning.

Today the standard spelling is suara, and soeara is rarely used outside historical or philological contexts. The term may also appear in archival materials as part of personal names, family names, or place names, though such uses are uncommon and highly dependent on local history.

For readers seeking related terms, suar a and its variants are the contemporary reference points. Soeara serves mainly as a historical example of how Indonesian and Malay orthography has shifted toward the modern, standardized form.