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The Sundanese ( Indonesian: Orang Sunda; Sundanese: ᮅᮛᮀ ᮞᮥᮔ᮪ᮓ, romanized: Urang Sunda) are an indigenous ethnic group native to the western region of Java island in Indonesia, primarily West Java. They number approximately 42 million and form Indonesia's second most populous ethnic group.
History of Sundanese language. Sundanese language is a member of the Malayo-Polynesian language family which is part of the Austronesian language family, thus, Sundanese is one of the derivatives of Proto-Malayo-Polynesian reconstruction whose ancestor is Proto-Austronesian. [1] [2] The earliest evidence of the use of Sundanese in written form ...
Sundanese ( / sʌndəˈniːz /: [2] basa Sunda, Sundanese pronunciation: [basa sunda]; Sundanese script: ᮘᮞ ᮞᮥᮔ᮪ᮓ; Pegon: بَاسَا سُوْندَا) is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by the Sundanese. It has approximately 32 million native speakers in the western third of Java; they represent about 15% of Indonesia 's ...
Sunda Wiwitan (also known as Sundanism, Sundaism, or Sunda folk religion) is an umbrella term referring to the native Western Javan folk or ethnic religion, traditionally adhered by the main Sunda ethnics (the Sundanese and Baduy ), invented and originally practiced in the western hemisphere regions of the Indonesian island of Java. [1]
Old Sundanese ( Sundanese script: ᮘᮞ ᮞᮥᮔ᮪ᮓ ᮘᮥᮠᮥᮔ᮪, Old Sundanese script: , Buda script: , Sundanese alphabet: Basa Sunda Buhun) is the earliest recorded stage of the Sundanese language which is spoken in the western part of Java, Indonesia. The evidence is recorded in inscriptions from around the 12th [1] to 14th ...
In 1996, the government of West Java announced a plan to introduce an official Sundanese script, and in October 1997, the Old Sundanese script was chosen and renamed to Aksara Sunda. Typology. The standardized script has 32 basic characters-- seven vowels, 23 consonants, and thirteen phonetic diacriticals (Sundanese: rarangkén). There are also ...
Current status. Baduy is one of the regional languages in Indonesia and its existence is sufficiently preserved by the local government, although research on this language is still relatively small. The use of the Baduy language is considered as the most important marker of ethnic identity for the Baduy people.
Sundanese-Baduy languages or simply Sundanese languages is one of the branches of several debatable language families, such as, Malayo-Sumbawan and Greater North Borneo in one Austronesian language family. Members in this language family include Sundanese along with dialects and Baduy which are linguistically related to Sundanese with a degree ...