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Language code: ind

Technical information about ISO 639 language code ind

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The table below provides technical details for the Indonesian language, designated by the ind code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

ind

Name

Official

Indonesian

Native

Bahasa Indonesia

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Standard IndonesianJakarta IndonesianMedan IndonesianPalembang IndonesianManado Indonesian
Related languages
Malaysian MalayMinangkabauBanjarBruneian MalayIban
Key facts
Codified under the 1928 Youth Pledge that formally named the languageBased on the classical trade Malay once centered in the Riau-Lingga archipelagoDutch is the single largest source of loanwords, followed by Sanskrit and ArabicHistorically written in Arabic-derived Jawi and Pegon scripts before Latin script became dominantSpoken natively by only a minority of its users, with second-language speakers vastly outnumbering natives
Sample phrase

Halo, apa kabar?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Indonesian language, identified by the code ind, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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