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Languages Spoken in Indonesia

Official: Indonesian

Indonesia has a population of 281.6 million and is a linguistically diverse country, with 16 languages meeting our inclusion threshold. Indonesian serves as the official language. Of the languages spoken in Indonesia, 3 are supported by LEXIGO's professional translation services.

281.6M
Population
16
Languages
3
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Languages spoken in Indonesia

Indonesian Official
Latin script
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64%
CLDR
Javanese
Formal Javanese Spelling, Javanese script
34%
CLDR
Sundanese
Latin script, Sundanese script
12%
CLDR
Madurese
6%
CLDR
Malay
Jawi, Latin script
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3%
CLDR
Minangkabau
Jawi, Latin script
3%
CLDR
Betawi
2%
CLDR
Balinese
2%
CLDR
Buginese
2%
CLDR
Banjar
2%
CLDR
Acehnese
1%
CLDR
Sasak
1.0%
CLDR
Batak Toba
0.9%
CLDR
Chinese
Chinese characters, simplified Chinese characters
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0.9%
CLDR
Makasar
0.7%
CLDR
Lampung Api
0.7%
CLDR
CIA World Factbook

"Bahasa Indonesia (official, modified form of Malay), English, Dutch, local dialects (of which the most widely spoken is Javanese); note - more than 700 languages are used in Indonesia"

Data sources
Unicode CLDR (population percentages)
CIA World Factbook (official languages)
Wikidata (language families, scripts)
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