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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

Indonesia

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46

1.3 National Language

Indonesia

1.4 Second Language

East Timor, Indonesia

1.5 Speaking Continents

Asia

1.6 Minority Language

Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands

1.7 Regulated By

Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa

1.8 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.

1.9 Similar To

Malay language

1.10 Derived From

Malay and Dutch Languages

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

26
Rank: 8 (Overall)
About Irish Language
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

6
Rank: 3 (Overall)
About Hebrew Language
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

19
Rank: 9 (Overall)
About German Language
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Latin

2.5 Writing Direction

Not Available

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

7
Rank: 6 (Overall)
About Bengali Language
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

36 weeks
Rank: 10 (Overall)
About Cebuano Language
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

Halo

3.2 Thank You

Terima kasih

3.3 How Are You?

Apa kabar?

3.4 Good Night

Selamat Malam

3.5 Good Evening

Malam yang baik

3.6 Good Afternoon

Selamat Sore

3.7 Good Morning

Selamat Pagi

3.8 Please

mohon Untuk

3.9 Sorry

maaf

3.10 Bye

Selamat tinggal

3.11 I Love You

Aku cinta kamu

3.12 Excuse Me

Permisi

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Sundanese

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Indonesia

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

38,000,000.00
Rank: 8 (Overall)
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Balinese

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

3,300,000.00
Rank: 17 (Overall)
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Minangkabau

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Indonesia, Malaysia

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

6,000,000.00
Rank: 7 (Overall)
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

46
Rank: 30 (Overall)
About Sanskrit Language
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

163.00 million
Rank: 11 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

1.16 %
Rank: 14 (Overall)
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

23.00 million
Rank: 34 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

140.00 million
Rank: 4 (Overall)
About Finnish Language
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

Bahasa Melayu

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Bahasa Indonesia

5.3.4 French Name

indonésien

5.3.5 German Name

Bahasa Indonesia

5.4 Pronunciation

Not Available

5.5 Ethnicity

Indonesians

6 History

6.1 Origin

7th Century

6.2 Language Family

Austronesian Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Indonesian

6.2.2 Branch

Not Available

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

Old Malay

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Indonesian

6.3.3 Language Position

56
Rank: 41 (Overall)
About Chinese Language
1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")

6.4 Scope

Individual

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

id

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

ind

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

ind

7.3 ISO 639 3

ind

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

indo1316

7.6 Linguasphere

No data available

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative

Know Alphabets in Indonesian

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Indonesian Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Indonesian Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Indonesian. Indonesian phonology gives Indonesian vowels and Indonesian consonants. There are 6 vowels and 19 consonants in Indonesian language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Indonesian is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Indonesian language is given in detail in this section.

All Indonesian countries

Want to explore all Indonesian countries? About Indonesian language serves you with all Indonesian Speaking Countries. Countries that use Indonesian as official language are called as Indonesian countries.

  • Countries that use Indonesian as their National Language are: Indonesia.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Indonesian as second language are: East Timor, Indonesia.

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Learn Indonesian greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Indonesian Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Indonesian language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Indonesian language.Learn Indonesian greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Halo
  • Thank you: Terima kasih
  • Good Morning: Selamat Pagi
  • Good Evening: Malam yang baik
  • Good Afternoon: Selamat Sore

All Indonesian Language Codes

Get to know all Indonesian language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Indonesian Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.