Sasak (language)

Sasak
Spoken in	Lombok ( Indonesia )
speaker	2.1 million (Indonesia) ( SIL , 1989)
Linguistic classification	Austronesian languages Malayo-Polynesian languages West Malayo Polynesian languages Bali-Sasak-Sumbawa languages Sasak (language)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	sas

Sasak is a language spoken in Lombok by the Sasak people. It is one of the West Malayo-Polynesian languages ​​of the Malayo-Polynesian languages within the Austronesian languages . It is closely related to the Balinese languages and the languages ​​of the western half of Sumbawa . It used to be written in the Balinese script today in the Latin script .

There are five dialects:

• Kuto-Kute (North Sasak)
• Nggeto-Nggete (Northeast Sasak)
• Meno-Mene (Central Sasak)
• Ngeno-Ngene (Central-East Sasak, Central-West Sasak)
• Meriaq-Meriku (Central-South Sasak)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sasak at Ethnologue (17th edition, 2013)