Sundanese is an Austronesian language spoken in Java, primarily by the Sundanese. It has approximately 32 million native speakers in the western third of Java, representing about 15 percent of Indonesia's total population.
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ISO 639-3 Code Speaker Count2015 estimate, native speakers. StatusWikipedia article on Sundanese: a currently spoken living language with an active native-speaker population; checked 2026-09-27. RegionWestern part of Java and surrounding areas 2 Classification
Language Kind Connections
In Family
Source Wikipedia: Sundanese Language
Written In
Modern Sundanese is standardly written in the Latin alphabet (the historical Sundanese script is now largely ceremonial).
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Source Glottolog
Sources
1. Glottolog: Sundanese (Glottolog languoid sund1252)
GlottologEndangerment, AES statusQuote, Endangerment, AES status
AES status: not endangered
2. Wikipedia: Sundanese Language
Wikimedia FoundationLead section
Sundanese ( SUN-də-NEEZ; endonym: Basa Sunda, Sundanese script: ᮘᮞ ᮞᮥᮔ᮪ᮓ, Pegon script: بَاسَا سُوْندَا, pronounced [basa sʊnda]) is an Austronesian language spoken in Java, primarily 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.
Infobox, ISO 639-3
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Infobox: date
2015
Infobox, Region
Western part of Java and surrounding areas
In Family: Malayo-Polynesian, Infobox: fam2
Malayo-Polynesian
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