Sundanese | |
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basa Sunda ᮘᮞ ᮞᮥᮔ᮪ᮓ بَاسَا سُوْندَا | |
![]() 'Sunda' in Sundanese script | |
Pronunciation | [basa sʊnda] |
Native to | Indonesia |
Region | West Java, Banten, Jakarta, small parts of western Central Java, southern Lampung, also spoken by the Sundanese diaspora all over Indonesia and throughout the world. |
Ethnicity | Sundanese (Badui • Bantenese • Ciptagelar • Cirebonese • Priangan) |
Native speakers | 32 million (2015)[1] |
Austronesian
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Early forms | |
Standard forms | |
Dialects | |
Latin script (present) Sundanese script (present; optional) Sundanese Pégon script (17–20th centuries AD, present; religious schools only) Old Sundanese script (14–18th centuries AD, present; optional) Sundanese Cacarakan script (17–19th centuries AD, present; certain areas) Buda Script (13–15th centuries AD, present; optional) Kawi script (historical) Pallava (historical) Pranagari (historical) Vatteluttu (historical) | |
Official status | |
Regulated by | Lembaga Basa jeung Sastra Sunda |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 | su |
ISO 639-2 | sun |
ISO 639-3 | Variously:sun – Sundanesebac – Baduy Sundaneseosn – Old Sundanese |
Glottolog | sund1252 |
Linguasphere | 31-MFN-a |
![]() Areas where Sundanese is a majority native language
Areas where Sundanese is a minority language with >100,000 speakers
Areas where Sundanese is a minority language with <100,000 speakers | |
Sundanese (/ˌsʌndəˈniːz/ SUN-də-NEEZ;[2] basa Sunda, Sundanese script: ᮘᮞ ᮞᮥᮔ᮪ᮓ, Pegon script: بَاسَا سُوْندَا, pronounced [basa sunda]) is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by the Sundanese. It has approximately 32 million native speakers in the western third of Java; they represent about 15% of Indonesia's total population.[1]