Balinese language

Balinese language

language
name=Balinese
nativename=Basa Bali
region=Bali, Nusa Penida, Lombok and Java, Indonesia
speakers=3.9 million (as of 2001)
familycolor=Austronesian
fam2=Malayo-Polynesian
fam3=Nuclear Malayo-Polynesan
fam4=Sunda-Sulawesi
fam5=Bali-Sasak
script=Latin, Balinese
iso2=ban|iso3=ban

Balinese or simply Bali is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by 3.9 million people (as of 2001) on the Indonesian island of Bali, as well as northern Nusa Penida, western Lombok and eastern Java. [Ethnologue.] Most Balinese speakers also know Indonesian.

Kawi is a related priestly language.

Classification

Balinese is part of the Austronesian language family, and is closely related to the Sasak and Sumbawa languages.

Phonology

Vowels

Consonants

Grammar

Registers

Balinese has different registers depending on the relationship and status of those speaking: low ("basa ketah"), middle ("basa madia"), and high ("basa singgih"). "Basa singgih" contains many loanwords from Sanskrit and Javanese.

Writing

Balinese has been written in two different writing systems: the Balinese script, and in modern times the Latin alphabet.

Balinese script

The Balinese script ("Carakan") is an abugida, ultimately derived from the Brāhmī script of India. The earliest known inscriptions date from the 11th century AD.

Few people today are familiar with the Balinese script. [Omniglot.] The Balinese Script almost the same as Javanese script.

Latin alphabet

Schools in Bali today teach a form of the Latin alphabet for writing Balinese, known as "Tulisan Bali". [ [http://www.balivision.com/Article_Resources/TheBaliniseLanguage.asp The Balinese LanguagesBy Fred B Eiseman, Jr] - Bali Vision]

Notes

References

*cite web |url=http://www.omniglot.com/writing/balinese.htm |title=Balinese |accessdate=2007-03-07 |last=Ager |first=Simon |work=Omniglot
*cite book |author=Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.) |year=2005 |chapter= [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ban Bali] |title=Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition |location=Dallas, Tex. |publisher=SIL International


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