Five interesting facts about the Indonesian language:
- Indonesian is the 10th most spoken language in the world with close to 200 million speakers.
- Standard Indonesian was made the official language of Indonesia in 1945.
- Over 700 languages are spoken in Indonesia, of which Indonesian is the lingua franca.
- Indonesian does not have grammatical genders.
- The Indonesian language has adopted many loanwords from other languages including Arabic, Sanskrit, Chinese, Portuguese and Dutch.