Austronesian · ISO 639-3 ace
Achinese Language Acèh
Achinese is an Austronesian language spoken by about 3.7 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Achinese is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Achinese
Language family
- Austronesian
- Malayo-Polynesian
- Malayo-Chamic
- Aceh-Chamic
- Achinese
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Achinese language
Achinese (Acèh) is spoken by about 3.7 million people, which makes it the 220th most spoken language in the world — just behind Hassaniyya (3.8 million) and ahead of Chuanqiandian Cluster Miao (3.7 million). It belongs to the Austronesian language family and, more precisely, to the Aceh-Chamic group within the Malayo-Chamic branch.
Where is Achinese spoken?
Achinese is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Indonesia (3.9 million).
Achinese is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Achinese is written in the Latin script. Glottolog classifies it as threatened, meaning fewer children learn it than in the past.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Indonesian, Malay, Minangkabau, Betawi, Bukit Malay, Banjar and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 ace.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.