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Basa Sunda

Basa Sunda (literally, language of Sunda), also called Sundanese, is the language of about 27,000,000 people from the western third of Java or 13.6% of Indonesian population.

It is classified in Austronesian - Malayo-Polynesian - Banten,

• Bogor,
• Priangan, and
• Cirebon.

Priangan, which cover the most area of Sunda, is the main dialect of Sundanese language taught in elementary till junior-high schools (equivalent to ninth-year school grade).

Phonology

Currently, Sundanese is written in Latin script and is highly phonetical. There are five pure vowel sounds: a (similar to the sound in bus), e (as in get), i (shorter than in eat), o (shorter than in dawn), u (as in put), and two neutral vowels like the second vowel of water which is also spelled e, and eu (as 'eau' in plateau); and no diphthong. The consonantic phonemes are rendered by the letters p, b, t, d, k, g, c (pronounced like the ch in cheese), j, h, ng (which also occurs initially), ny (as in canyon), m, n, s (unvoiced, as in sun or cats), w, l, r (trilled or flapped) and y. Other consonants that originally appear in Indonesian loanwords mostly transferred into main consonants: f -> p, v -> p, sy -> s, sh -> s, z -> j, and kh (as in loch) -> h.

Basic grammar

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Root word

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Active form

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Negation

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Question

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Passive form

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Adjectives

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Prepositions

Place

English	Sundanese (normal)	Sundanese (polite)
above ..	diluhureun ..	diluhureun ..
behind ..	ditukangeun ..	dipengkereun ..
under ..	dihandapeun ..	dihandapeun ..
inside ..	di jero ..	di lebet ..
outside ..	di luar ..	di luar ..
between .. and ..	di antara .. jeung ..	di antawis .. sareng ..

Time

English	Sundanese (normal)	Sundanese (polite)
before	saacan	sateuacan
after	sanggeus	saparantos
during	basa	nalika

Miscellaneous

English	Sundanese (normal)	Sundanese (polite)
from	tina	tina

Conjuctives

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