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What was the official language in Indonesia before Indonesian?
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Indonesian has been used as a lingua franca of the Indonesian archipelago for centuries. It is a standardised form of a language originally spoken in northwestern Sumatra. Before that, a variety of dialects were spoken, such as Javanese, Sundanese and Madurese, most of which (including these three examples) are still spoken today by thousands, sometimes millions, of people.
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