Countries
Indonesia
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
National Language
Indonesia
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Second Language
East Timor, Indonesia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa, Asia
  
Minority Language
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
  
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
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.
  
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
Similar To
Malay language
  
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Derived From
Malay and Dutch Languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Halo
  
مرحبا
  
Thank You
Terima kasih
  
شكرا
  
How Are You?
Apa kabar?
  
كيف حالك؟
  
Good Night
Selamat Malam
  
تصبح على خير
  
Good Evening
Malam yang baik
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Afternoon
Selamat Sore
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Morning
Selamat Pagi
  
صباح الخير
  
Please
mohon Untuk
  
من فضلك
  
Sorry
maaf
  
آسف
  
Bye
Selamat tinggal
  
وداعا
  
I Love You
Aku cinta kamu
  
أحبك
  
Excuse Me
Permisi
  
اعذرني
  
Dialect 1
Sundanese
  
Maghrebi
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00
  
8
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Balinese
  
Sudanese
  
Where They Speak
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
  
Sudan
  
How Many People Speak
3,300,000.00
  
17
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Minangkabau
  
Levantine
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Cyprus, Levant
  
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00
  
7
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
452.00 million
  
4
Native Speakers
23.00 million
  
34
206.00 million
  
6
Second Language Speakers
140.00 million
  
4
246.00 million
  
2
Native Name
Bahasa Melayu
  
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Alternative Names
Bahasa Indonesia
  
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
French Name
indonésien
  
arabe
  
German Name
Bahasa Indonesia
  
Arabisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Ethnicity
Indonesians
  
Arabs
  
Origin
7th Century
  
512 CE
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Subgroup
Indonesian
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
North Arabic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Malay
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Indonesian
  
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Signed Forms
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
  
Signed Arabic
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
id
  
ar
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ind
  
ara
  
ISO 639 2/B
ind
  
ara
  
ISO 639 3
ind
  
ara
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
indo1316
  
arab1395
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
12-AAC
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Fusional, Synthetic