Countries
Indonesia
Indonesia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Indonesia
Indonesia
Second Language
East Timor, Indonesia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Regulated By
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
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Interesting Facts
- The modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
Similar To
Malay language
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Derived From
Malay and Dutch Languages
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2627
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
66
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1921
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
74
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Halo
Halo
Thank You
Terima kasih
matur nuwun
How Are You?
Apa kabar?
piye kabare?
Good Night
Selamat Malam
wengi sing apik
Good Evening
Malam yang baik
Sugeng sọnten
Good Afternoon
Selamat Sore
Sugeng siang
Good Morning
Selamat Pagi
Sugeng énjing
Please
mohon Untuk
matur nuwun
Sorry
maaf
Nyuwun pangapunten
Bye
Selamat tinggal
Kepanggih malih benjang
I Love You
Aku cinta kamu
Kula tresna panjengan
Excuse Me
Permisi
Nuwun séwu
Dialect 1
Sundanese
Pekalongan
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0082,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Balinese
Cirebon
Where They Speak
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
3,300,000.0082,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Minangkabau
Arekan
Where They Speak
Indonesia, Malaysia
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0082,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
4616
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million82.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.16 %1.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
23.00 million76.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
140.00 million82.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Bahasa Melayu
basa Jawa
Alternative Names
Bahasa Indonesia
Djawa, Jawa
French Name
indonésien
javanais
German Name
Bahasa Indonesia
Javanisch
Pronunciation
[bahaˈsa indoneˈsia]
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
Ethnicity
Indonesians
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Origin
7th Century
450 AD
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
Indonesian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Malay
No early forms
Standard Forms
Indonesian
Javanese
Language Position
5611
1
120
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Signed Forms
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
Javanese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
id
jv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ind
jav
ISO 639 2/B
ind
jav
ISO 639 3
ind
jav
ISO 639 6
ind
jav
Glottocode
indo1316
java1253
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative