Language code: id
Technical information about ISO 639 language code id
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The table below provides technical details for the Indonesian language, designated by the id code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
|
| Standard | |
| Name | Official Indonesian Native Bahasa Indonesia |
| Family | Malay |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Plural rules | |
| Language varieties | Standard IndonesianJakartan (Betawi) IndonesianJambi IndonesianPalembang IndonesianSurabayan Indonesian |
| Related languages | MalayMinangkabauBanjarBrunei MalayRiau Malay |
| Key facts | Evolved from a Malay trade lingua franca and standardised in the early 20th centuryVocabulary features extensive borrowings from Sanskrit, Dutch, Arabic, Portuguese, Chinese and EnglishWritten in the 26-letter Latin alphabet, finalised by the 1972 spelling reformEmploys affixation and reduplication to mark grammatical functions and pluralityDefault word order is subject-verb-object, but topicalisation allows flexible sentence structures |
| Sample phrase | Halo, apa kabar? |
| Character encodings | |
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Indonesian belongs to the Austronesian language family, specifically to the Malay subgroup. It is the official language of Indonesia and is also used in some parts of East Timor. It is written using the Latin script (Indonesian alphabet). It is estimated that there are more than 150 million speakers worldwide.
Language presence globally
Speakers
150M
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Indonesian speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
Related locale codes
id-ID – Indonesian (Indonesia)
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- Reports and Statistics
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- GitHub integration
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- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
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- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
- Machine Translation
- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ