Indonesian

The Indonesian language is noteworthy in several ways. Very few Indonesians have Indonesian as their mother tongue. Most speak indigenous minority languages as their first language and Indonesian as their second. Indonesian did not become an official language until 1945. It is a dynamic language and continually adopts new loan words. Indonesian and Malay are very similar.

Countries with Indonesian as official language

Indonesia

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