Indonesian language, also known as Bahasa Indonesia, the official language of Indonesia
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Compared with European languages, Indonesian has a strikingly small use of grammatically gendered words; the same word is used for he and she or for his and her.
The country borders Malaysia on the island of Borneo ( Indonesian : Kalimantan), Papua New Guinea on the island of New Guinea and East Timor on the island of Timor.
Many Indonesians identify with a more specific ethnic group that is often linked to language and regional origins; examples of these are Javanese, Sundanese, or Batak.
Most Indonesians speak a local language ( bahasa daerah) as their first tongue, but the official national language, Indonesian (also called bahasa Indonesia, and closely related to Malay) is almost universally taught in schools and is spoken by nearly every Indonesian.
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