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Indonesian

A language of Indonesia (Java and Bali)

ISO 639-3: ind

Population	22,800,000 in Indonesia (2000). Population total all countries: 23,187,680.
Region	Widespread in Indonesia. Also in Netherlands, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, United States.
Alternate names	Bahasa Indonesia
Classification	Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Malayo-Sumbawan, North and East, Malayic, Malay
Language use	Official language. Over 140,000,000 L2 speakers.
Language development	Fully developed. Bible: 1974–2000.
Writing system	Arabic script. Latin script.
Comments	Reportedly modeled on Riau Malay [zlm] of northeast Sumatra. Has regional variants. Over 80% cognate with Standard Malay [zsm]. Muslim.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Abbott, Ruth Louise. 1995. Discourse conditions governing aspect: The use of sudah and telah in Indonesian.

Bambang K., Purwo. 1978. "The point-line dimension: a way of looking at some aspects of the referential system in Indonesian."

Barr, Donald F. 1979. "The use of deictics to identify participants in Bahasa Indonesia."

Chou Shu Hsiu. 1999. Melanau and Indonesian: a comparative grammatical study.  

Grimes, Charles E. 1996. "Indonesian—the official language of a multilingual nation."

Grimes, Charles E. 1996. "Indonesian—the official language of a multilingual nation."

Kana, Marit. 1983. "The syntax and semantics of verbal prefixes in Bahasa Indonesia."

Laskowske, Tom. 2004. UniSpell and lexical databases.  

Mahdi, Waruno. 1993. "Distinguishing homonymic word forms in Indonesian."

Mettler, Heidi. 1990. Pedoman penggunaan program teks ‘Editor 3.3’ untuk komputer.

Moeliono, Anton M. and Charles E. Grimes. 1995. "Indonesian (Malay): introduction and wordlist."

Shelden, Howard and Kay Ringenberg. 2003. "Measuring language of wider communication (L2) and local community language (L1) literacy levels in a bilingual community of Indonesia."

Silzer, Peter J. and Sheryl Silzer. 1976. "Discourse considerations in Bahasa Indonesia."

Soderberg, Craig D. and Kenneth S. Olson. 2008. "Illustrations of the IPA: Indonesian."

Sterner, Robert H., Ignatius Suharno, and Kenneth L. Pike. 1976. "Experimental syntax applied to the relation between sentence and sentence cluster in Indonesian."

Suharno, Ignatius and Kenneth L. Pike, editors. 1976. From Baudi to Indonesian.

Summer Institute of Linguistics. 1984. A working thesaurus in Indonesian and English.

Travis, Edgar W. 1986. Penyelidikan persamaan bahasa dengan menggunakan mikrokomputer.

van den Berg, René and La Ode Sidu. 2000. Kamus Muna-Indonesia.

Voskuil, Jan E. 1993. "Verbal inflection in Indonesian."

Wolff, John U. 1993. "Why roots add the affixes with which they occur: a study of Tagalog and Indonesian adjective formations."

Vernacular Publications

Alat pemarut kelapa. 1996.

Batako beton untuk diusahakan sendiri dengan keterangan gambar. 1986.

Belajar bahasaku asyik: kurikulum bahasa Moronene dan bahasa Indonesia, buku panduan untuk guru. 2003.

Cara pembuatan kompos (Pupuk alami) dan Pemanfaatan bedengan sayuran di pekarangan rumah). 1996.

Dasar mengelas. 1989.

Dasar-dasar pengembangan masyarakat. 1989.

Nun uram sekwayeb: mabwe dun buku (Mari kita menulis Bahasa Kita: buku Bacaan Murid). 1999.

Pembuatan batako. 1986.

Penyakit kelamin. 1996.

Peta lokasi bahasa-bahasa daerah di propinsi Irian Jaya. 1986.

Terpen village avoids avian influenza (Desa terpen terhindar dari penyakit flu burung; Papuan illustrations). 2005.  

Terpen village avoids avian influenza = Desa terpen terhindar dari penyakit flu burung (Asian illustrations). 2005.  

Yusuf mati karena AIDS. 1996.