Editing Demographics of Indonesia (section)

==Languages==
{{main article|Languages of Indonesia}}

[[Indonesian language|Indonesian]] is the [[Official language|official]] and [[National language|national]] language of [[Indonesia]],<ref>{{cite wikisource |title=Article 36 of The 1945 Constitution of The Republic of Indonesia |wslink=Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia}}</ref> widely spoken by over 97% of the population.<ref>{{citation|url=https://www.bps.go.id/en/publication/2023/01/27/ffb5939b4393e5b1146a9b91/the-result-of-long-form-population-census-2020.html|title=Long Form Census 2020|work=[[Statistics Indonesia]]|language=id}}</ref> However, Indonesia is a highly [[multilingual]] country. According to [[Ethnologue]], there are currently 737 regional languages spoken across the Indonesian archipelago. This extensive linguistic diversity accounts for about 10% of the world’s total languages, making Indonesia the second most linguistically diverse country in the world.<ref name="Ethnologue2009">{{Citation |last=Lewis |first=M. Paul |title=Ethnologue: Languages of the World |url=http://www.ethnologue.com/ |year=2009 |edition=16th |publisher=SIL International |access-date=17 November 2009}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=What Countries Have the Most Languages? |url=https://www.ethnologue.com/guides/countries-most-languages |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200820110531/https://www.ethnologue.com/guides/countries-most-languages |archive-date=20 August 2020 |access-date=20 August 2020 |website=Ethnologue |date=22 May 2019 |language=en}}</ref> The majority of these languages belong to the [[Austronesian language]] family, which is prevalent in the western and central regions of Indonesia, including languages such as [[Acehnese language|Acehnese]], [[Batak language|Batak]], [[Sundanese language|Sundanese]], [[Balinese language|Balinese]], [[Banjarese language|Banjarese]] and [[Buginese language|Buginese]]. In contrast, the eastern regions, particularly [[Western New Guinea|Papua]] and the [[Maluku Islands]], are home to over 270 [[Papuan languages]], which are distinct from the Austronesian language family and represent a unique linguistic heritage.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Simons |first1=Gary F. |url=https://www.ethnologue.com/country/ID/languages |title=Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Twenty-first edition |last2=Fennig |first2=Charles D. |publisher=SIL International |year=2018 |access-date=20 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190626224541/https://www.ethnologue.com/country/ID/languages |archive-date=26 June 2019}}</ref> The most widely spoken language as a mother tongue is [[Javanese language|Javanese]], spoken by over 80 million speakers, mainly in [[Central Java|central]] and [[East Java|east]] [[Java]], but also on many other islands due to migration.