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Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia; [baˈhasa indoˈnesija]) is the official and national language of Indonesia. [9] It is a standardized variety of Malay, [10] an Austronesian language that has been used as a lingua franca in the multilingual Indonesian archipelago for centuries.
The official language of Indonesia is Indonesian [9] (locally known as bahasa Indonesia), a standardised form of Malay, [10] which serves as the lingua franca of the archipelago. The vocabulary of Indonesian borrows heavily from regional languages of Indonesia, such as Javanese , Sundanese and Minangkabau , as well as from Dutch , Sanskrit ...
Papua province: Lake Sentani area, about 30 scattered villages; scattered in other parts of Indonesia. 140 Taman tmn 6a 30,000 West Kalimantan province: Kapuas Hulu regency; upper Kapuas river. 141 Termanu twu 6a 30,000 East Nusa Tenggara province: Bokai, Keka, Korbafo, Talae, and Termanu areas on central Rote island. 142 Aralle-Tabulahan atq 5
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
They are spoken by about 328 million people (4.4% of the world population). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] This makes it the fifth-largest language family by number of speakers. Major Austronesian languages include Malay (around 250–270 million in Indonesia alone in its own literary standard named " Indonesian "), [ 4 ] Javanese , Sundanese , Tagalog ...
Indonesians (Indonesian: Orang Indonesia) are citizens or people who are identified with the country of Indonesia, [46] regardless of their ethnic or religious background. [47] [48] There are more than 1,300 ethnicities in Indonesia, [49] [50] making it a multicultural archipelagic country with a diversity of languages, culture and religious beliefs.
Word derivation and compounds. Indonesian and (Standard Malaysian) Malay have similar derivation and compounds rule. However, there is difference on quasi-past participle or participle-like adjective when attached to a noun or verb. (Standard Malaysian) Malay uses prefix ber- to denote such, while Indonesian uses prefix ter- to do so.
The Sundanese language is spoken by approximately 36 million people in 2010 [9] and is the second most widely spoken regional language in Indonesia. [10] The 2000 Indonesia Census put this figure at 30.9 million.