Austronesian · ISO 639-3 ljp
Lampung Api Language cawa Lampung
Lampung Api is an Austronesian language spoken by about 1.8 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Lampung Api is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Lampung Api
Language family
- Austronesian
- Malayo-Polynesian
- Lampungic
- Pesisir
- Lampung Api
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Lampung Api language
Lampung Api (cawa Lampung) is spoken by about 1.8 million people, which makes it the 334th most spoken language in the world — just behind Karekare (1.8 million) and ahead of Northern Luri (1.8 million). It belongs to the Austronesian language family and, more precisely, to the Pesisir group within the Lampungic branch.
Where is Lampung Api spoken?
Lampung Api is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Indonesia (1.9 million).
Lampung Api is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Lampung Api is written in the Latin script. Glottolog classifies it as threatened, meaning fewer children learn it than in the past.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Lampung Nyo.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 ljp.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.