Countries
Indonesia
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Indonesia
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
Second Language
East Timor, Indonesia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
Similar To
Malay language
Munda Language
Derived From
Malay and Dutch Languages
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2630
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
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
76
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Halo
Henda ho
Thank You
Terima kasih
Adi Johar
How Are You?
Apa kabar?
Cet’leka menama?
Good Night
Selamat Malam
Boge Ninda
Good Evening
Malam yang baik
Boge Ayup’
Good Afternoon
Selamat Sore
संध्यायान
Good Morning
Selamat Pagi
Boge Setak’
Please
mohon Untuk
দয়া করে
Sorry
maaf
দুঃখিত
Bye
Selamat tinggal
Hariau
I Love You
Aku cinta kamu
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Excuse Me
Permisi
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Dialect 1
Sundanese
Mahali
Where They Speak
Indonesia
India
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Balinese
Not present
Where They Speak
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
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How Many People Speak
3,300,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Minangkabau
Not present
Where They Speak
Indonesia, Malaysia
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How Many People Speak
6,000,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
461
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
163.00 million6.30 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.16 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
23.00 million6.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
140.00 million6.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Bahasa Melayu
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Alternative Names
Bahasa Indonesia
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
French Name
indonésien
santal
German Name
Bahasa Indonesia
Santali
Pronunciation
[bahaˈsa indoneˈsia]
[sɑnˈtɑli]
Ethnicity
Indonesians
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Origin
7th Century
20th century
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
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Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Malay
No early forms
Standard Forms
Indonesian
Santali
Language Position
5641
1
120
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Signed Forms
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
Santali Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
id
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ind
sat
ISO 639 2/B
ind
sat
ISO 639 3
ind
sat
ISO 639 6
ind
sat
Glottocode
indo1316
sant1410
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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