Sasak language

Sasak
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Lombok
Ethnicity	Sasak
Native speakers	unknown (2.1 million cited 1989)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (MP) Nuclear MP Malayo-Sumbawan Bali–Sasak Sasak
Writing system	Balinese script, Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-2	sas
ISO 639-3	sas
Glottolog	sasa1249[2]

The Sasak language is spoken by the Sasak ethnic group, which make up the majority of the population of Lombok, Indonesia. It is closely related to the languages of adjacent Bali and the western half of Sumbawa.

The language is divided into five dialects, which are not always mutually intelligible:

• Kuto-Kute (North Sasak)
• Nggeto-Nggete (Northeast Sasak)
• Meno-Mene (Central Sasak)
• Ngeno-Ngene (Central East Sasak, Central West Sasak)
• Meriaq-Meriku (Central South Sasak)

References

1. Sasak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Sasak". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

External links

• Online Dictionary Sasak language - English
• David Goldsworthy's collection of Music of Indonesia and Malaysia archived with Paradisec includes open access recordings in Sasak.