Balinese language

Balinese
bhāṣa Bali / ᬪᬵᬱᬩᬮᬶ basa Bali / ᬩᬲᬩᬮᬶ1
'Aksara Bali' (Balinese script) in the Balinese script
Pronunciation	[basə ˈbali] (standard)
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Bali Nusa Penida Lombok (western)[1] Java (eastern)[2]
Ethnicity	Balinese, Bali Aga, Loloan Malays
Native speakers	3.3 million (2000 census)[3]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Malayo-Sumbawan (?) Bali–Sasak–Sumbawa Balinese
Early form	Old Balinese
Standard forms	Kapara Balinese[4][5][6]
Dialects	Highland Balinese (Bali Aga) Lowland Balinese Nusa Penida Balinese[7]
Writing system	Latin script Balinese script
Official status
Recognised minority language in	Indonesia
Regulated by	Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa Balai bahasa provinsi Bali
Language codes
ISO 639-2	ban
ISO 639-3	ban
Glottolog	bali1278
Geographical distribution of the Balinese language:   Areas where Balinese is a majority native language of population with >1.000.000 speaker   Areas where Balinese is a significant minority language of population with >100,000 speakers   Areas where Balinese is a minority language of population with <50,000 speakers   Areas where Balinese is a minority language of population with <10,000 speakers This article contains Balinese alphabet. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Balinese characters.
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The Balinese language (basa Bali, Standard Balinese pronunciation: [basə ˈbali];
Indonesian: bahasa Bali) is an Austronesian language in the Malayo-Polynesian language branch. It is spoken on the Indonesian island of Bali, as well as Nusa Penida, Western Lombok, Eastern Java,^[8] Southern Sumatra, and Sulawesi.^[9] Most Balinese speakers also use Indonesian. The 2000 national census recorded 3.3 million people speakers of Balinese, however the Bali Cultural Agency estimated in 2011 that the number of people still using the Balinese language in their daily lives is under 1 million. The language has been classified as "not endangered" by Glottolog.^[7]

The higher registers of the language borrow extensively from Javanese: an old form of classical Javanese, Kawi, is used in Bali as a religious and ceremonial language. Apart from being spoken in Bali, Balinese is also widely spoken on the island of Lombok, especially western part of Lombok island, and to a small extent it is also spoken on the island of Java, especially Banyuwangi and the Balinese language is the majority language in Tegaldlimo district [id] and some village. It is also widely used in big cities in Sumbawa. The spread of the Balinese language on these islands cannot be separated from the history between the islands.