ISO 639-3 · banban
Austronesian family
Balinese
Basa Bali
Balinese is a language of the Malayo-Sumbawan branch (Austronesian), spoken in Indonesia. Wikidata counts 3.3 m first-language speakers (2000). Wikidata describes it as “Malayo-Polynesian language spoken on the island of Bali”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
ban- Glottocode
bali1278- Family
- Austronesian
- EGIDS
- 5 Developing
- Centre point
- -8.35, 115.08
- Wikipedia
- 85 language editions
3.3 mfirst-language speakers
—second-language speakers
1countries
2scripts
4levels in the tree
5EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Balinese · Basa Bali |
|---|---|
| Also called | Balinese language, Bali |
| L1 speakers | 3,300,000 (2000) |
| All speakers | 4,000,000 |
| Written in | Balinese, Latin script |
Vitality
EGIDS 5 Developing5
Stable. Spoken by all generations at home, with or without schooling — EGIDS 5 and 6a.
Other languages at this levelfamily tree
From Austronesian to Balinese
The branches above Balinese, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Also spoken in Indonesia
engEnglishIndo-European · 1.13 bn0 · InternationalcmnMandarin ChineseSino-Tibetan · 1.07 bn1 · NationalcmnStandard ChineseSino-Tibetan · 897.1 maraArabicAfroasiatic · 315.4 mSafeindIndonesianAustronesian · 199 m1 · NationaljavJavaneseAustronesian · 84.3 m4 · EducationaltamTamilDravidian · 83 m2 · ProvincialmsaMalayAustronesian · 77 mnanSouthern MinSino-Tibetan · 48.3 m6a · VigoroushakHakka ChineseSino-Tibetan · 48.2 m5 · Developing