ISO 639-3 · sunsun
Austronesian family
Sundanese
Basa Sunda
Sundanese is a language of the Greater North Borneo branch (Austronesian), spoken in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. Wikidata counts 32.4 m first-language speakers (2019). Wikidata describes it as “language spoken in Indonesia”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
sun- ISO 639-1
su- Glottocode
sund1251- Family
- Austronesian
- EGIDS
- 5 Developing
- Centre point
- -6.90, 107.11
- Wikipedia
- 103 language editions
32.4 mfirst-language speakers
—second-language speakers
3countries
2scripts
3levels in the tree
5EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Sundanese · Basa Sunda |
|---|---|
| Also called | Sunda, Sundanese language |
| L1 speakers | 32,400,000 (2019) |
| Written in | Latin script, Sundanese alphabet |
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 Sundanese
The branches above Sundanese, 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