The biggest language in Indonesia is Indonesian—kind of. Indonesian far outpaces the Southeast Asian island nation’s other 700+...

Did you know that Malay is one of the biggest languages in the world? That’s because Indonesian and Malay are the same...

Indonesian is not the native language of all Indonesians. In fact, it’s not even the native language of most Indonesians. Yes, the...

A whopping one-tenth of the world’s languages are native to Indonesia. Yes, of the 7000-odd languages spoken in the world, around 700 are...

Did you know that Indonesian and Malay are actually the same language? It’s an official language in Malaysia, Brunei, and Singapore under...

It’s true that Malay is the national language of Malaysia—but that’s a bit of an oversimplification. Malay proper accounts for the native...

Malay is one of the biggest languages in the world, constituting an official language in Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, and...

With more than 700 languages spanning its many shores and islands, Indonesia is home to a plethora of minority languages that,...

Southeast Asia is an incredibly linguistically diverse place—and that’s especially true of Maritime Southeast Asia. Indonesia’s 17,000+...

Indonesia is multilingual—to the tune of more than 700 indigenous languages found across its thousands of islands. Indeed, Indonesia is...

Indonesia has more indigenous languages than almost any country on Earth—the only country with more languages spoken natively within its...

Did you know that more than 700 languages are native to the thousands of islands that make up the Southeast Asian nation of Indonesia?...

Indonesian is one of the biggest languages in the world, and when you consider that Indonesia has a population of more than 270 million,...

The island of Sulawesi—one of the major islands of Indonesia—boasts a population of around 20 million people and a whopping 114...

Welcome to Java: the most populous island in the world. With more than 151 million people crammed onto this 124,000-square-kilometer...

Malay is the biggest language in the Austronesian language family, with two main standardized forms: Malaysian and Indonesian. Malaysian...

You might think that the linguistic landscape in Indonesia is dominated entirely by the Indonesian language, but in fact, Indonesia is...

Most people have no idea just how linguistically diverse Mexico is. Spanish overshadows all other languages in the Central American...

Most countries all across the Americas use a European language as their dominant language—usually English, Spanish, Portuguese, or...

Most people associate Mexico with a vibrant and colorful Hispanic culture, with Spanish dominating life in the Central American country....