Indonesian is a Malay language based on Riau dialect and the official language of Indonesia. About 30 million people in the world use Indonesian as their mother tongue, and about 65.438+0.4 billion people use Indonesian as their second language, so they can read and speak Indonesian skillfully.
Introduction to Indonesian
Indonesian is spoken all over Indonesia, and many people in the Netherlands, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and the United States also use Indonesian. In order to unify with written Malay, in 1972, the Indonesian government introduced Ejaan Yang Disempurnakan based on Malay spelling system, which made the spelling of Indonesian and Malay very close.