Indonesian Language

Standardised Malay and Austronesian language with about 252 million speakers; Indonesia's official language, written in Latin script.

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Indonesian had about 252 million total speakers in 2020, including 177 million second-language users.
At its adoption in 1945 it was the native language of only about 5% of the population; by the 2020 census over 97% of Indonesians were fluent.
It is a standardised variety of Malay, written in the Latin script under the EYD orthography.