Countries
Indonesia
  
Fiji, India
  
National Language
Indonesia
  
India
  
Second Language
East Timor, Indonesia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Oceania
  
Minority Language
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
  
Central Hindi Directorate
  
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.
  
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
  
Similar To
Malay language
  
Urdu
  
Derived From
Malay and Dutch Languages
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Indonesian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Hindi.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Halo
  
नमस्ते (Namastē)
  
Thank You
Terima kasih
  
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
  
How Are You?
Apa kabar?
  
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
  
Good Night
Selamat Malam
  
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
  
Good Evening
Malam yang baik
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
Selamat Sore
  
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
  
Good Morning
Selamat Pagi
  
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
  
Please
mohon Untuk
  
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
  
Sorry
maaf
  
खेद (Khēda)
  
Bye
Selamat tinggal
  
अलविदा (Alavidā)
  
I Love You
Aku cinta kamu
  
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
  
Excuse Me
Permisi
  
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
  
Dialect 1
Sundanese
  
Khariboli
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
  
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00
  
8
240,000,000.00
  
2
Dialect 2
Balinese
  
Marwari
  
Where They Speak
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
  
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
  
How Many People Speak
3,300,000.00
  
17
22,000,000.00
  
3
Dialect 3
Minangkabau
  
Bundeli
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Bundelkhand
  
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00
  
7
20,000,000.00
  
4
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
380.00 million
  
5
Native Speakers
23.00 million
  
34
260.00 million
  
4
Second Language Speakers
140.00 million
  
4
120.00 million
  
6
Native Name
Bahasa Melayu
  
हिन्दी
  
Alternative Names
Bahasa Indonesia
  
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
  
French Name
indonésien
  
hindi
  
German Name
Bahasa Indonesia
  
Hindi
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
  
Ethnicity
Indonesians
  
Hindustani people
  
Origin
7th Century
  
7th Century
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indonesian
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Malay
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Indonesian
  
Standard Hindi
  
Signed Forms
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
  
Indian Signing System
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
id
  
hi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ind
  
hin
  
ISO 639 2/B
ind
  
hin
  
ISO 639 3
ind
  
hin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
hins
  
Glottocode
indo1316
  
hind1269
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
59-AAF-qf
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Indonesian and Hindi Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Indonesian and Hindi greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Indonesian and Hindi language. Indonesian word for "Hello" is Halo or Hindi word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda). Find more of such common Indonesian Greetings and Hindi Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Indonesian vs Hindi Difficulty
The Indonesian vs Hindi difficulty level basically depends on the number of Indonesian Alphabets and Hindi Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Indonesian and Hindi are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Indonesian and Hindi, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Indonesian is 36 weeks while to learn Hindi time required is 44 weeks.