Bahasa is an artificial language made official in 1928. Its achieved the status of an official language with the declaration of independence of Indonesia from the Netherlands in 1945. It has been used as a lingua franca in the Indonesian archipelago for centuries. Indonesia language is a member of the Malay-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family along with Malaysia and Philippines.īahasa Indonesia is a standardized dialect of Malay. Indonesian refers to the official language of Indonesia.
So that Indonesia has the highest amount of languages are practiced.
Indonesia is the fourth country with the largest population in the world.
