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Indonesian

Also known as Indonesian language, bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa

official language of Indonesia

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Indonesian is the official language of Indonesia, a Southeast Asian nation of over 270 million people. It serves as a unifying language across the country's diverse population, which speaks hundreds of different regional languages and dialects.

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Instance of: human language
Subclass of: Malay
Has part: Indonesian slang
Named after: Indonesia
Country: Indonesia
Contains: East Nusa Tenggara
Image: Indonesian language.png

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female form of label: la langue indonésienne
category for films in this language: Category:Indonesian-language films
language regulatory body: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation
Commons category: Indonesian language
writing system: Latin alphabet
Wikimedia language code: id
topic's main category: Category:Indonesian language
native label: Bahasa Indonesia
linguistic typology: synthetic language
indigenous to: Indonesia
influenced by: Japanese
studied by: indonesiology
P10369: corporal punishment
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 155369000
short name: Indonesian
P11012: Category:Artistic languages
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
exact match: afbo.info/languages/42

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Encyclopedic overview

The Youth Pledge, a pledge made by Indonesian youth on October 28, 1928, defining the identity of the Indonesian nation. On the last pledge, there was an affirmation of Indonesian language as a unifying language throughout the archipelago. Indonesian language speaker

Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia) is the official and national language of Indonesia. It is a standardized variety of Malay, an Austronesian language that has been used as a lingua franca in the multilingual Indonesian archipelago for centuries. With over 280 million inhabitants, Indonesia ranks as the fourth-most populous nation globally. According to the 2020 census, over 97% of Indonesians are fluent in Indonesian, making it the largest language by number of speakers in Southeast Asia and one of the most widely spoken languages in the world. Indonesian vocabulary has been influenced by various native regional languages such as Javanese, Sundanese, Minangkabau, Balinese, Banjarese, and Buginese, as well as by foreign languages such as Arabic, Dutch, Hokkien, Portuguese, Sanskrit, and English.

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