About Sundanese Language | Sundanese | Alphabets in Sundanese

Countries

West Java

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 14 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

Indonesia

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Interesting Facts

The Sundanese language is second most widely spoken regional language in Indonesia.

Similar To

Madurese and Malay Languages

Derived From

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 15 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 2 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 6 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Latin, Sundanese

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 5 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

40 weeks

Rank: 15 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

Halo

Thank You

Nuhun

How Are You?

Kumaha kabarna?

Good Night

Wilujeng kulem

Good Evening

Wilujeng wengi

Good Afternoon

Wilujeng siang

Good Morning

Wilujeng énjing

Please

Mangga

Sorry

Hapunten

Bye

Wilujeng angkat

I Love You

Abdi bogoh ka anjeun

Excuse Me

Punten

Dialects

Dialect 1

Western dialect

Where They Speak

Banten

How Many People Speak

40,000,000.00

Rank: 18 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Northern dialect

Where They Speak

Bogor

How Many People Speak

40,000,000.00

Rank: 16 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Priangan dialect

Where They Speak

Bandung

How Many People Speak

40,000,000.00

Rank: 15 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 6 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

39.00 million

Rank: 32 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.57 %

Rank: 29 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

38.00 million

Rank: 26 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

39.00 million

Rank: 22 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

Basa Sunda

Alternative Names

Priangan, Sunda

French Name

soundanais

German Name

Sundanesisch

Pronunciation

[sʊnˈdæniːs]

Ethnicity

Sundanese, Bantenese, Cirebonese, Badui

History

Origin

5th century AD

Language Family

Austronesian Family

Subgroup

Indonesian

Branch

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

Sundanese

Language Position

Rank: 39 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Sundanese Sign Language

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

sun

ISO 639 2/B

sun

ISO 639 3

sun

ISO 639 6

sun

Glottocode

sund1251

Linguasphere

No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Know Alphabets in Sundanese

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Sundanese Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Sundanese Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Sundanese. Sundanese phonology gives Sundanese vowels and Sundanese consonants. There are 5 vowels and 16 consonants in Sundanese language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Sundanese is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Sundanese language is given in detail in this section.

All Sundanese countries

Want to explore all Sundanese countries? About Sundanese language serves you with all Sundanese Speaking Countries. Countries that use Sundanese as official language are called as Sundanese countries.

Countries that use Sundanese as their National Language are: Indonesia.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

Countries that use Sundanese as second language are: Sundanese is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Sundanese greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Sundanese Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Sundanese language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Sundanese language.Learn Sundanese greetings that can be used in formal situations:

Hello: Halo
Thank you: Nuhun
Good Morning: Wilujeng énjing
Good Evening: Wilujeng wengi
Good Afternoon: Wilujeng siang

All Sundanese Language Codes

Get to know all Sundanese language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Sundanese Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.