Sundanese language

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Sundanese (Basa Sunda)

Spoken in

Java
speaker 27 million
Linguistic
classification
Language codes
ISO 639 -1

see below

ISO 639 -2

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ISO 639-3

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Sundanese ( Basa Sunda ) is the language of around 27 million people in the western third of the island of Java . This corresponds to about 15% of the total population of Indonesia .

Spread of Sundanese on Java (brown color)

It belongs to the group of Malayo-Polynesian languages , a subgroup of the Austronesian language family and includes all dialects that are named after the regions of their speakers:

Priangan , which is spoken in the largest province of Java with the same name, is the main dialect of Sundanese and is taught from the first to the ninth grade. Today the Sundanese language uses the Latin alphabet .

phonetics

Sundanese is a highly phonetic language written in the Latin alphabet; H. Pronunciation and spelling are strongly correlated. There are five pure vowels :

  • a (as in shadow ),
  • é (like in bed )
  • i (as in table ),
  • o (like the English dawn )
  • u (as in sip ),

and two neutral vowels:

  • e (as in father ) and
  • eu (as in low )

There are, however, no diphthongs . The consonants are rendered as follows: p, b, t, d, k, g, c (pronounced: ch ), j, h, ng (also as initials ), ny (as in Canyon ), m, n, s ( voiceless), w, l, r (rolled or uvular) and y. Other consonants from loanwords are converted into main consonants: f → p, v → p, sy → s, sh → s, z → j, and ch (as in Loch ) → h.

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Consonants of the Aksara Sunda

Sundanese was or is written in seven scripts. Today, in addition to the Latin script, the Aksara Sunda is used, which is based on the Old Sundanese script ( Aksara Sunda Kuno ). Historically, a variant of the Arabic script, the pegon , was also used. The Nagari script was also used. Aksara Sunda has been included in the Sundanese Unicode block since 2008 (Version 5.1) and has been expanded with Version 6.1 Sundanese Unicode Block, supplement . The Sundanese Wikipedia (and Wiktionary, Wikiquote) uses the Latin script.

Language example

Universal Declaration of Human Rights , Article 1:

“Sakumna jalma gubrag ka alam dunya teh sifatna merdika jeung boga martabat katut hak-hak anu sarua. Maranehna dibere akal jeung hate nurani, campur-gaul jeung sasamana aya dina sumanget duduluran. "

(All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should meet one another in a spirit of brotherhood.)

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