Sasak (language)
Sasak | ||
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Spoken in |
Lombok ( Indonesia ) | |
speaker | 2.1 million (Indonesia) ( SIL , 1989) | |
Linguistic classification |
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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
- ↑ Sasak at Ethnologue (17th edition, 2013)