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Languages in Indonesia are classified into nine categories: national language, locally used indigenous languages, regional lingua francas, foreign and additional languages, heritage languages, languages in the religious domain, English as a lingua franca, and sign languages.
Aug 25, 2017 · Indonesian is one of the most popular languages in the world with about 43 million people in Indonesia being identified as native Indonesian language speakers while another 156 million use the language as a second language.
Jan 19, 2021 · There are 71 9 languages spoken in Indonesia. This includes one official language Bahasa Indonesia, and 718 regional languages spoken across the country. The number of local languages has been verified by the Language Department of Ministry of Education and Culture.
Indonesian ( Bahasa Indonesia; [baˈhasa indoˈnesija]) is the official and national language of Indonesia. [8] It is a standardized variety of Malay, [9] an Austronesian language that has been used as a lingua franca in the multilingual Indonesian archipelago for centuries.
May 8, 2019 · With 707 living languages spoken in Indonesia, Indonesia has the second-highest number of languages in the world, following Papua New Guinea to the east. Many of these languages are spoken by a small number of people.
Indonesian languages, broadly, the Austronesian languages of island Southeast Asia as a whole, including the languages of Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines, and Taiwan, and the outlying areas of Madagascar and of Palau and the Mariana Islands of western Micronesia.
Most languages belong to the Austronesian language family, while there are over 270 Papuan languages spoken in eastern Indonesia. The language most widely spoken as a native language is Javanese. More than 700 living languages are spoken in Indonesia.
