Indonesian

E21742

Indonesian is the standardized form of the Malay language used as the national and administrative language of Indonesia.


Statements (49)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Malayic language
national language
official language
standardized language
closelyRelatedTo Malay
Standard Malay
country Indonesia
hasAlternativeName Bahasa Indonesia
Indonesian Malay
hasLoanwordsFrom Arabic
Chinese
Dutch
English
Portuguese
Sanskrit
hasMorphologicalFeature extensive use of affixation
predominantly agglutinative morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature simple vowel system
hasStandardForm Bahasa Baku Indonesia
hasSyntacticFeature basic SVO word order
hasWritingStandard Ejaan Yang Disempurnakan
ISO639-1Code id
ISO639-2Code ind
ISO639-3Code ind
languageBranch Malayo-Polynesian languages
languageFamily Austronesian languages
languageGroup Malayic languages
macrolanguageMemberOf Malay macrolanguage
nationalLanguageOf Indonesia
nativeName Bahasa Indonesia
officialLanguageOf Indonesia
primaryRegion Indonesia
Southeast Asia
recognizedMinorityLanguageIn East Timor
regulator Badan Bahasa
standardBasedOn Classical Malay
Riau Malay
subclassOf Malay language
usedAsFirstLanguageBy part of the population of Indonesia
usedAsLinguaFrancaIn Indonesia
usedAsSecondLanguageBy many residents of Indonesia
usedInEducationIn Indonesia
usedInGovernmentIn Indonesia
usedInMediaIn Indonesia
usedInOrganization Association of Southeast Asian Nations
usesAlphabet Indonesian alphabet
writingDirection left-to-right
writingSystem Latin script


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