Sundanese is spoken by about 42 million people, primarily in the western part of Java in Indonesia. It can be written in both the traditional Sundanese abugida and the Latin alphabet. The language is agglutinative, has no grammatical gender, and follows a subject-verb-object order. Sundanese culture is well known for its music, dance, puppet theater (wayang golek), and rich oral storytelling traditions, with the language serving as a key vehicle for cultural preservation.
Stats
Language Family: Austronesian
Writing System: Sundanese, Latin
Writing System Type: Abugida, Alphabet
Writing Direction: L to R
Tones / Pitch Accent: N
Morphology: Agglutinative
Cases: 0
Grammatical Gender / Noun Class: 0
Number of Verb Tenses: 3
Word Order: SVO
Number of Vowels (Monophthongs): 7
Number of Consonants: 18
Areas Where Spoken
Indonesia (16.08%) (42 mil)