Sundanese
See also: sundanese
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sʌndəˈniːz/
Audio (US) (file)
Noun
Sundanese (plural Sundanese)
- A member of an ethnic group in the western part of the island of Java in Indonesia, numbering approximately 42 million.
- 1947 April 30, “Civil War Reports Circulate in Java”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- According to these reports, which could not be verified, the Sundanese were preparing to declare their freedom from the new Indonesian Republic and to ask the Dutch for military protection.
- 2014, Jacqueline Knörr, Creole Identity in Postcolonial Indonesia, page 177:
- While he is now revered as a local and national hero of the Betawi, according to older legends he was in fact a Sundanese who came to Batavia from Cirebon.
Translations
Proper noun
Sundanese
- The language of the Sundanese people.
- Synonym: Basa Sunda
- The abugida used to write the Sundanese language.
Translations
language
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Adjective
Sundanese (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to the Sundanese people.
Translations
pertaining to the Sudanese people
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See also
- Wiktionary’s coverage of Sundanese terms
Further reading
- ISO 639-1 code su, ISO 639-3 code sun (SIL)
- Ethnologue entry for Sundanese, sun
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