Indonesian

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A language of Indonesia

ISO 639-3
ind
Autonym
Bahasa Indonesia
User Population

198,000,000 in Indonesia (2010 census), all users. L1 users: 42,800,000 (2015 UNSD), increasing. Total users in all countries: 198,996,550 (as L1: 43,627,550; as L2: 155,369,000).

Location

Widespread.

Language Status

1 (National). Statutory national language (1945, Constitution, Article 36).

Classification
Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Malayo-Chamic, Malayic, Malay
Dialects

None known. Lexical similarity: over 80% with Standard Malay [zsm]. A member of macrolanguage Malay [msa].

Typology

SVO; prepositions; noun head initial, but quantifiers before noun; 3 noun classifiers; no articles; aspect; 19 consonants, 6 vowels, 3 diphthongs; non-tonal; stress on penultimate syllable; 2 social registers; inclusive/exclusive pronouns.

Language Development

Taught in all primary and secondary schools. Taught in all tertiary schools. Fully developed. Bible: 1974–2000.

Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Indonesian
Writing

Arabic script, Naskh variant [Arab]. Braille script [Brai]. Latin script [Latn], primary usage.

Other Comments

Developed from literary ‘Classical Malay’ of the Riau-Johor sultanate (Sneddon 2003). Has regional variants. Muslim.

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