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Sasak is spoken by the Sasak people on the island of Lombok in West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, which is located between the island of Bali (on the west) and Sumbawa (on the east). Its speakers numbered about 2.7 million in 2010, roughly 85 percent of Lombok's population. [1] Sasak is used in families and villages, but has no formal status.
Linguistically, the Nusa Penida Balinese is considered a dialect of Balinese, which is a Malayo-Polynesian language within the Bali-Sasak-Sumbawa branch of the Austronesian language family. [6] This dialect is regarded as more closely related to the Bali Aga dialect spoken in the highland regions of mainland Bali than to lowland Balinese.
The Bali–Sasak–Sumbawa languages are a group of closely related languages spoken in Indonesia in the western Lesser Sunda Islands (Bali and West Nusa Tenggara). The three languages are Balinese on Bali, Sasak on Lombok, and Sumbawa on western Sumbawa. [1] The Malayo Sumbawa languages (Bali-Sasak-Sumbawa languages are circled in green) Balinese
The Balinese script, natively known as Aksara Bali and Hanacaraka, (Balinese: ᬅᬓ᭄ᬱᬭᬩᬮᬶ) is an abugida used in the island of Bali, Indonesia, commonly for writing the Austronesian Balinese language, Old Javanese, and the liturgical language Sanskrit.
The Sasak (Balinese script: ᬲᬸᬓᬸ ᬲᬲᬓ᭄, Wång Sâsak) people live mainly on the island of Lombok, Indonesia, numbering around 3.6 million (85% of Lombok's population). They are related to the Balinese in language and in ancestry, although the Sasak are predominantly Muslim while the Balinese are predominantly Hindu.
^1 In Balinese script, Sanskrit and Kawi loanwords tend use conservative orthography as standard form in Balinese script. The word for language, basa , in Balinese is a loanword from Old Javanese bhāṣa which came from the Sanskrit word भाषा bhāṣā , hence it is written according to Sanskrit and Old Javanese spelling ...
This writing system is closely related to the one used to write Javanese, this might be caused because both of Balinese script and Javanese script were heavily influenced by Brahmic scripts. [ 8 ] The Sanu Pillar inscription which is one of the earliest attestations of Balinese is written in Sanskrit with elements of prose in Old Balinese.
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