Sundanese language

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Sundanese
basa Sunda ᮘᮞ ᮞᮥᮔ᮪ᮓ بَاسَا سُوْندَا
'Sunda' in Sundanese script
Pronunciation	[basa sʊnda]
Native to	Indonesia
Region	West Java, Banten, Jakarta, small parts of western Central Java, southern Lampung, also spoken by the Sundanese diaspora all over Indonesia and throughout the world.
Ethnicity	Sundanese (Badui • Bantenese • Ciptagelar • Cirebonese • Priangan)
Native speakers	32 million (2015)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian disputed: Malayo-Sumbawan or Greater North Borneo Sundanese–Baduy Sundanese
Early forms	Old Sundanese Classical Sundanese
Standard forms	Priangan Sundanese
Dialects	Baduy (considered a separate language) Banten Banyumas (extinct) Bogor Brebes Ciamis Northeast Cirebon Indramayu Majalengka Priangan
Writing system	Latin script (present) Sundanese script (present; optional) Sundanese Pégon script (17–20th centuries AD, present; religious schools only) Old Sundanese script (14–18th centuries AD, present; optional) Sundanese Cacarakan script (17–19th centuries AD, present; certain areas) Buda Script (13–15th centuries AD, present; optional) Kawi script (historical) Pallava (historical) Pranagari (historical) Vatteluttu (historical)
Official status
Regulated by	Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa Lembaga Basa Jeung Sastra Sunda
Language codes
ISO 639-1	su
ISO 639-2	sun
ISO 639-3	Variously: sun – Sundanese bac – Baduy Sundanese osn – Old Sundanese
Glottolog	sund1252
Linguasphere	31-MFN-a
Areas where Sundanese is a majority native language   Areas where Sundanese is a minority language with >100,000 speakers   Areas where Sundanese is a minority language with <100,000 speakers
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Sundanese (/sʌndəˈniːz/:^[2] basa Sunda, Sundanese pronunciation: [basa sunda]; Sundanese script: ᮘᮞ ᮞᮥᮔ᮪ᮓ; Pegon: بَاسَا سُوْندَا) is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by the Sundanese. It has approximately 32 million native speakers in the western third of Java; they represent about 15% of Indonesia's total population.^[1]