1728: The Most Widely-Spoken Unofficial Language Sep 7, 2019

Javanese is the most widely spoken language that is not an official language. With around 100 million speakers—roughly 42% of Indonesia's population—this language could have been a suitable choice for Indonesia's national language, or even just one of them, but since the only official language for whole country is Bahasa Indonesia (there are certainly regionally official languages), it can be argued that Javanese is the most widely spoken language not official recognized by any country. The reason for this was to avoid favoritization of one language over the rest; since around 700 languages are spoken in the immense nation, Bahasa Indonesia was in some respects fabricated in order to be more nationalistic.
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