Indonesian is the official language of Indonesia and a standardised form of Malay, an Austronesian language long used as a trading lingua franca across the archipelago. Adopted as the national language when independence was declared in 1945, it now serves a population of around 270 million, though for most Indonesians it sits alongside one of the country's several hundred regional languages, such as Javanese or Sundanese, learned at home. Written in the Latin alphabet with a fairly consistent spelling system, Indonesian has absorbed loanwords from Sanskrit, Arabic, Dutch and English. It remains very close to Malaysian Malay, and speakers of the two understand each other with little trouble. The language dominates education, government, national media and everyday communication between Indonesia's many ethnic groups.
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