1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Indonesia
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
East Timor, Indonesia
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
Indonesia, Malaysia
1.7 Regulated By
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
1.9 Similar To
Malay language
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1.10 Derived From
Malay and Dutch Languages
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Apa kabar?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
3.4 Good Night
Selamat Malam
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
3.5 Good Evening
Malam yang baik
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Selamat Sore
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
Selamat tinggal
再见 (Zàijiàn)
3.11 I Love You
Aku cinta kamu
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Indonesia
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
China, United States of America
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
3,300,000.0080,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Indonesia, Malaysia
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0060,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
163.00 million1,051.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
23.00 million873.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
140.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
Bahasa Melayu
中文 (zhōngwén)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bahasa Indonesia
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5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Bahasa Indonesia
Chinesisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Austronesian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
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6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Indonesian
Standard Chinese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
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Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Analytic, Isolating