Sasak
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Bali–Sasak–Sumbawa language spoken by the Sasak ethnic group, native to Lombok Island
Key facts
- Pronunciation
- [ˈbasə ˈsasak]
- Native to
- Indonesia
- Region
- Lombok
- Ethnicity
- Sasak , Bayanese [ id ]
- Native speakers
- 2.7 million (2010)
- Language family
- Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Malayo-Sumbawan ? Bali–Sasak–Sumbawa Sasak– Sumbawa Sasak
- Dialects
- North Sasak (Kutó-Kuté, Bayan-Sasak ), Northeast Sasak (Nggetó-Nggeté), Central Sasak (Menó-Mené), Central East Sasak-Central West Sasak (Ngenó-Ngené), Central South Sasak (Meriaq-Meriku)
- Writing system
- Latin script (Sasak Latin alphabet) , Sasak script (a modification of the Balinese script )
- Regulated by
- Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
- Iso 639 2
- sas
- Iso 639 3
- sas
- Glottolog
- sasa1249
- Elp
- Sasak
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
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- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 2000000
- native label
- ᬪᬵᬲᬵᬲᬓ᭄ᬱᬓ᭄
- P10369
- Icelandic
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Article
The Sasak language (/ˈsɑːsɑːk/ SAH-sahk; Base Sasaq, IPA: [ˈbasə ˈsasak], Sasak script: ᬪᬵᬲᬵᬲᬓ᭄ᬱᬓ᭄; Indonesian: Bahasa Sasak [baˈha.sa ˈsasak]) or Sasaknese is spoken by the Sasak ethnic group, which make up the majority of the population of Lombok, an island in the West Nusa Tenggara province of Indonesia. It is closely related to the Balinese and Sumbawa languages spoken on adjacent islands, and is part of the Austronesian language family. Sasak has no official status; the national language, Indonesian, is the official and literary language in areas where Sasak is spoken.
Some of its dialects, which correspond to regions of Lombok, have a low mutual intelligibility. Sasak has a system of speech levels in which different words are used depending on the social level of the addressee relative to the speaker, similar to neighbouring Javanese and Balinese.