Betawi people

Name: Betawi people: census figures, languages and lineage
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Бетави · Q2900057

language area per Glottologcensus counts

6,807,968

Indonesia, census 2010 (national and/or ethnic group, UN)

Austronesian

language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in Indonesia: 6,807,968 people in the 2010 census.

Main language: Betawi. Glottolog classifies it in the Austronesian family.

Where they live: census figures

Each figure comes from the country's official census. Censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry); the type is given on each row.

Indonesia2010 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Betawi» · [1]

6,807,968

Languages and their lineage

Betawi

Austronesianaust1307
Malayo-Polynesianmala1545
Malayo-Chamicmala1554
Malayicmala1538
Nuclear Malayicnucl1806
Betawicbeta1260
Betawibeta1252

People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.

Peoples of the same language family

Javanese Sundanese Tagalog (Filipinos)Malays Banjar Minangkabau Chams Chamorro people Samoans Carolinian people

Sources

United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Indonesia, Census - de jure - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)