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Indonesian Sign Language: inl 6a 810,000 Scattered: Java and Bali, especially Jakarta. 28 Chinese, Min Nan: nan 8a 766,000 Bali, Java, Kalimantan, and Sumatra provinces: scattered. 29 Uab Meto: aoz 5 700,000 East Nusa Tenggara province: most of west Timor island. 30 Batak Mandailing: btm 6b 691,000
Ranked Everyday language group number % 1 Javanese: 68,044,660 31.79 2 Indonesian: 42,682,566 19.94 3 Sundanese: 32,412,752 15.14 4 Malay: 7,901,386 3.69
Indonesian Chinese businesses are part of the larger bamboo network, a network of overseas Chinese businesses operating in the markets of Southeast Asia that share common family and cultural ties. [164] Pagoda in PIK, North Jakarta. PIK is often the most sought residential area for wealthy Chinese Indonesians, featuring large mansions in ...
Javanese is the most spoken indigenous language, with native speakers constituting 31.8% of the total population of Indonesia (as of 2010). [17] Javanese speakers are predominantly located in the central to eastern parts of Java, and there are also sizable numbers in most provinces.
In Indonesia, Cantonese is locally known as Konghu and is one of the variants spoken by the Chinese Indonesian community, with speakers largely concentrated in certain major cities like Jakarta, Medan, Surabaya, Makassar, Semarang, Manado and Batam. However, it has a relatively minor presence compared to other Southeast Asian nations, being the ...
Younger generations of Indonesian Chinese are generally fluent in Standard Indonesian, with some being fluent in English, local Chinese languages and even local native Austronesian languages (Javanese, Sundanese, etc.). Meanwhile, the older generations are only fluent in their native Chinese languages and Indonesian.
This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect . For example, Chinese and Arabic are sometimes considered single languages, but each includes several mutually unintelligible varieties , and so they are sometimes considered language families instead.
There are also Hokkien speakers scattered throughout other parts of Indonesia—including Jakarta and the island of Java—Thailand, Myanmar, East Malaysia, Brunei, Cambodia, and Southern Vietnam, though there is notably more Teochew and Swatow background among descendants of Chinese migrants in Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos ...