Sundanese language
| Sundanese | |
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| ᮘᮞ ᮞᮥᮔ᮪ᮓ Basa Sunda | |
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| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | West Java, Banten, Jakarta, parts of western Central Java, southern Lampung |
| Ethnicity | Sundanese, Bantenese, Cirebonese, Badui |
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Native speakers
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42 million (2016) |
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Austronesian
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Cacarakan (historical) Latin (present) Pranagari (historical) Sundanese script (present) Vatteluttu (historical) |
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| Official status | |
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Official language in
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Banten (regional) West Java (regional) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | su |
| ISO 639-2 | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either: sun – Sunda bac – Badui |
| Glottolog | sund1251 |
| Linguasphere | 31-MFN-a |
Sundanese /sʌndəˈniːz/ (Basa Sunda /basa sʊnda/, in Sundanese script ᮘᮞ ᮞᮥᮔ᮪ᮓ, literally "language of Sunda") is the language of about 39 million people from the western third of Java or about 15% of the Indonesian population.
Sundanese appears to be most closely related to Madurese and Malay, and more distantly related to Javanese. It has several dialects, conventionally described according to the locations of the people:
Priangan, which covers the largest area of Sunda (Tatar Pasundan in Sundanese), is the most widely spoken type of Sundanese language, taught in elementary till senior-high schools (equivalent to twelfth-year school grade) in West Java and Banten Province.
Sundanese can be written in different writing systems, the Old Sundanese script (Aksara Sunda Kuno) and Pegon in historical times, and in modern times the Latin script and the modern Sundanese script.
Sundanese orthography is highly phonetic (see also Sundanese script). There are seven vowels: a /ɑ/, é /ɛ/, i /i/, o /ɔ/, u /ʊ/, e /ə/, and eu /ɤ/. The consonantal phonemes are transcribed with the letters p, b, t, d, k, g, c (pronounced /tʃ/), j /d͡ʒ/, h, ng (/ŋ/), ny /ɲ/, m, n, s /s/, w, l, r /r~ɾ/, and y /j/. Other consonants that originally appear in Indonesian loanwords are mostly transferred into native consonants: f → p, v → p, sy → s, sh → s, z → j, and kh /x/ → h.
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