Austronesian family
Indonesian
1928 CE – today Living
Indonesian (1928 CE – today) is a living Austronesian language. Lineage: Proto-Austronesian → Proto-Malayo-Polynesian → Old Malay → Classical Malay → Indonesian.
See Indonesian on the interactive map- Speakers
- 200M (200,000,000)
- ISO 639-3
- ind
- Glottocode
- indo1316
Standardised variety of Malay adopted as the language of national unity at the 1928 Youth Pledge and made official in 1945. Speaker count includes L2 speakers; most Indonesians speak it as a second language.
Lineage
- Proto-Austronesianc. 3,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
- Proto-Malayo-Polynesianc. 2,500 BCE – 1,500 BCE
- Old Malay683 CE – 1400 CE
- Classical Malayc. 1400 CE – 1850 CE
- Indonesian1928 CE – today
Sister languages 1
Also descended from Classical Malay.