Austronesian · ISO 639-3 sun · su
Sundanese Language Basa Sunda
Sundanese is an Austronesian language spoken by about 32 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin, Javanese and Perso-Arabic scripts.
Where Sundanese is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Sundanese
Language family
- Austronesian
- Malayo-Polynesian
- Sundanese
Writing system
Latin, Javanese, Perso-Arabic and Sundanese scripts
Related languages
About the Sundanese language
Sundanese (Basa Sunda) is spoken by about 32 million people, which makes it the 52nd most spoken language in the world — just behind Maithili (34 million) and ahead of Moroccan Arabic (31 million). It belongs to the Austronesian language family.
Where is Sundanese spoken?
Sundanese is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Indonesia (34 million).
Sundanese is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Sundanese is written in the Latin, Javanese, Perso-Arabic and 1 more 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 Indonesian, Javanese, Caribbean Javanese, Malay, Filipino, Cebuano and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-1 su, ISO 639-3 sun.
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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.