Alternate Names: Bahasa Indonesia
Dialects: None known. Lexical similarity: over 80% with Standard Malay ,. A member of macrolanguage Malay ,.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 22,800,000 in Indonesia (2000), increasing. Population total all countries: 23,200,480. L2 users: 140,000,000 in Indonesia.
Language Development: Fully developed. Bible: 1974–2000.
Spoken In: Indonesia
Writing System: Arabic, Braille, Latin
Nation of Origin: Indonesia
Other Comments: Developed from literary ‘Classical Malay’ of the Riau-Johor sultanate (Sneddon 2003). Has regional variants. Muslim.