Osing | |
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Native to | Indonesia |
Region | East Java, Indonesia |
Ethnicity | Osing people |
Native speakers | 300,000 (2000 census)[1] |
Javanese script and Latin Pegon script (historical) | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | osi |
Glottolog | osin1237 |
![]() Areas where Osing is spoken by a majority of the population
Areas where Osing is spoken by a significant minority of the population | |
The Osing language (Osing: Basa Using; Indonesian: Bahasa Osing), locally known as the language of Banyuwangi, is the language of the Osing people of East Java, Indonesia.
Some Osing words have the infix /-y-/ 'ngumbyah', 'kidyang', which are pronounced /ngumbah/ and /kidang/ in standard Javanese, respectively.[2]
Divergent Osing vocabulary includes:[2]