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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
[12] [13] [14] The Indonesian language is primarily used in commerce, administration, education and the media, and thus nearly every Indonesian speaks the language to varying degrees of proficiency. [15] Most Indonesians speak other languages, such as Javanese, as their first language. [2] This makes plurilingualism a norm in Indonesia. [15]
Other spoken languages in Sumatra: 1,345,387 0.63 25 Other languages of Southeast Sulawesi: 1,047,750 0.49 26 Other languages of West Nusa Tenggara: 1,020,035 0.48 27 Other languages of Lampung province 914,656 0.43 28 Other languages of North Sulawesi: 875,861 0.41 29 Other Sulawesi languages 812,851 0.38 30 Languages of Kalimantan: 758,010 0. ...
Indonesians speak about 746 different languages. [187] Javanese has the most users in terms of native speakers (about 80 million). However, the sole official (or so-called "unity language") is Indonesian which has only 30 million L1 speakers (compared to Indonesia 260 million population). The role of Indonesian is important to glue together ...
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, Arabic is sometimes considered a single language centred on Modern Standard Arabic , other authors consider its mutually unintelligible varieties separate languages. [ 1 ]
Medan Hokkien is a local variety of Hokkien spoken amongst Chinese Indonesians in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia. It is the lingua franca in Medan as well as the surrounding cities in the state of North Sumatra. It is also spoken in some Medan Chinese migrant communities such as in Jakarta.
List of languages by number of native speakers; List of languages by total number of speakers; List of languages by the number of countries in which they are recognized as an official language; List of official languages by country and territory; Linguistic diversity index
Warung Buncit is name of an area in South Jakarta (also known as Jalan AH Nasution) that took its origin from Chinese Indonesian profile name Bun Tjit. Zaenuddin HM wrote in his book 212 Asal-Usul Djakarta Tempo Doeloe [221] that the name was inspired by a warung (local shop) ran by a Chinese Indonesia name Bun Tjit (styled Buncit). The shop ...