WIKITONGUES: Nila speaking Indonesian
Channel: Wikitongues
Date: 2015-12-19

Indonesian, known natively as Bahasa Indonesia, is spoken by more than 150 million people, primarily in the archipelago nation of Indonesia, where it is the only official language, and also by diaspora communities worldwide. A standardized variant of Riau Malay, it has long been the lingua franca of the Indonesian archipelago, but only grew as a widely-spoken mother tongue after Indonesia's independence in 1945. Though Bahasa Indonesia is a member of the Austronesian family, related to other mother tongues of the Pacific, it has a large vocabulary of loan words from other languages, especially Sanskrit, Mandarin, Arabic, Portuguese and Dutch. Read more on Wikipedia: http://bit.ly/1fqbSHz.

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