Betawi, sometimes called Jakartanese, is the Malay-based language of Jakarta's long-established Betawi people, and it has no distinct community in the UK; Indonesians here are relatively few and Betawi speakers generally use standard Indonesian for anything official. On the rare occasions a Betawi speaker needs us, the working document is normally in Indonesian: civil certificates for Home Office and UKVI applications, court or tribunal papers, and transcripts sent for UK ENIC evaluation, with an interpreter arranged for NHS or legal settings if required. Betawi is written, when written at all, in the Latin alphabet and is spoken by around five million people in and around Jakarta.
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