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Sundanese

Sundanese

Summary

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)

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