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Language code: su

Technical information about ISO 639 language code su

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The table below provides technical details for the Sundanese language, designated by the su code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

su

Name

Official

Sundanese

Native

Basa Sunda

Family
Malayo-Polynesian
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Western (Banten)Northern (Bogor)Southern (Sukabumi)Central / PrianganNortheastern (Cirebon)Southeastern (Tasikmalaya)
Related languages
JavaneseMadureseMalay (Indonesian)Balinese
Key facts
Employs three main speech levels to signal politeness and social hierarchyHas its own indigenous script, Aksara Sunda, which was revived and encoded in Unicode in 2008Lexicon shows heavy historical influence from Sanskrit and, later, DutchPhonology includes a contrast between plain and implosive voiced stops, rare in many neighboring languagesOne of the largest Austronesian languages, with well over 35 million speakers.
Sample phrase

Halo, kumaha damang?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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Sundanese belongs to the Austronesian language family, more specifically to the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup. It is predominantly spoken by the Sundanese in West Java and Banten, and also found in parts of Jakarta, Indonesia. Sundanese is written using both Latin and Sundanese scripts. It is estimated that there are around 32 million Sundanese speakers worldwide.

Language presence globally

Speakers

Indonesia

32M

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Sundanese speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

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