Bahasa Indonesia
Native Speakers: 43 million; L2 Speakers: 156 million
Indonesian archipelago
Official: Indonesia; Recognized Minority Language: East Timor
Austronesian, Malay
Follows a subject-verb-object (SVO) word order, but with a significant amount of flexibility. Does not utilize grammatical case, gender, and only rarely uses grammatical number. Nouns, verbs, and adjectives use of affixes (prefixes, suffixes, circumfixes, and infixes) to create new words by adding an affix to the root word. Verbs are not inflected for person, number, or tense, with tense being indicated through the use of time words. There is a complex system of verb affixes used to indicate voice/mood. Also makes use of many “measure words,” similar to other Asian languages.
Most of the Indonesian lexicon comes from Austronesian, including Old Malay. Many loanwords come from Dutch, the former colonial ruler of Indonesia, as well as English, Chinese, Arabic, Portuguese, Sanskrit, Tamil, and Hindi.
Bahasa Indonesia is the standard dialect.
Latin alphabet
Indonesian Americans are the 15th largest group of Asian Americans in the U.S., with a population of approximately 170,000. The largest communities are in Southern California, New York, Philadelphia, and the Washington, D.C. Metro Area.
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