Austronesian · ISO 639-3 sas
Sasak Language
Sasak is an Austronesian language spoken by about 2.6 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin and Balinese scripts.
Where Sasak is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
About the Sasak language
Sasak is spoken by about 2.6 million people, which makes it the 273rd most spoken language in the world — just behind Bouyei (2.6 million) and ahead of Segeju (2.6 million). It belongs to the Austronesian language family and, more precisely, to the Sasak-Sumbawa group within the Bali-Sasak-Sumbawa branch.
Where is Sasak spoken?
Sasak is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Indonesia (2.7 million).
Sasak is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Sasak is written in the Latin and Balinese scripts. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Balinese.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 sas.
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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.