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 |
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| Standard | |
| 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 | |
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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
32M
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Sundanese speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
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- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
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- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ