Country Info

Indonesia Languages

Below you can see all the written languages used in this country. View All Countries for the list of all world countries, or All Languages for all the written languages of the world.

There are 241,819,184 people (93% of Indonesia) that can read or write at least one language.

29 Writing Systems used in Indonesia

Indonesian (Latin)

id-latn
language code
166,771,840
people

Javanese (Latin)

jv-latn
language code
88,597,540
people

Sundanese (Latin)

su-latn
language code
31,269,720
people

Madurese (Latin)

mad-latn
language code
16,416,603
people

Malay (Arabic)

ms-arab
language code
11,986,725
people

Minangkabau (Latin)

min-latn
language code
7,817,430
people

Betawi (Latin)

bew-latn
language code
5,472,200
people

Balinese (Latin)

ban-latn
language code
4,690,457
people

Buginese (Latin)

bug-latn
language code
4,169,296
people

Banjar (Latin)

bjn-latn
language code
3,908,715
people

Achinese (Latin)

ace-latn
language code
3,648,133
people

Sasak (Latin)

sas-latn
language code
2,527,635
people

Batak Toba (Latin)

bbc-latn
language code
2,397,345
people

Chinese (Traditional)

zh-hant
language code
2,397,345
people

Makasar (Latin)

mak-latn
language code
1,902,241
people

Lampung Api (Latin)

ljp-latn
language code
1,798,008
people

Rejang (Latin)

rej-latn
language code
1,198,672
people

Gorontalo (Latin)

gor-latn
language code
1,068,382
people

Ngaju (Latin)

nij-latn
language code
964,149
people

Komering (Latin)

kge-latn
language code
833,859
people

Uab Meto (Latin)

aoz-latn
language code
703,568
people

Kerinci (Latin)

kvr-latn
language code
364,813
people

Tolaki (Latin)

lbw-latn
language code
338,755
people

Gayo (Latin)

gay-latn
language code
312,697
people

Tae' (Latin)

rob-latn
language code
286,639
people

Mandar (Latin)

mdr-latn
language code
239,734
people

Sangir (Latin)

sxn-latn
language code
239,734
people

Selayar (Latin)

sly-latn
language code
140,713
people

Mentawai (Latin)

mwv-latn
language code
62,539
people

References

Our data is sourced from a number of places. We use ISO639 codes for the country codes. The language code we are showing is non-standard and combines the language short name with the script shortname. The population numbers, country names and script names come from the Unicode CLDR dataset.

  1. Unicode CLDR