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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

id

Name

Official

Indonesian

Native

Bahasa Indonesia

Family
Malay
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Plural rules

More info

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

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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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

Indonesia

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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