Lampung language

Infobox Language
name=Lampung
states=Indonesia
region=Southern Sumatra
speakers=1,500,000 (1981)
iso3=ljp
familycolor=Austronesian
fam1=Austronesian
fam2=Malayo-Polynesian (MP)
fam3=Nuclear MP
fam4=Sunda-Sulawesi
fam5=Lampungic
script=Ulu script, Roman alphabet

Lampung is the name of an ethnic group and its language that is spoken in the Indonesian province of Lampung in south Sumatra. The amount of speakers is estimated at about 1,500,000.

Lampung is one of the over thousand Malayo-Polynesian languages and consists of two main dialects: Abung and Pesisir.

Before the introduction of the Roman script Lampung was written in its own script called Surat Lampung, which is a variant of the Ulu scripts used throughout central and south Sumatra. The script is little known nowadays but occasionally taught at schools.

External links

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ljp Ethonolgue]