Sasak

Facts

  • Language: Sasak
  • Alternate names:
  • Language code: sas
  • Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Malayo-Sumbawan, North and East Malayo-Sumbawan, Bali-Sasak-Sumbawa, Sasak-Sumbawa
  • Number of speakers: 2,600,000
  • Vulnerability: risk
  • Script: Balinese script, extended. Latin script.

More information:

    Subgroups: Waktu Lima, Waktu Telu. Most Waktu Telu own farms; most Waktu Lima are landless, travel more, and have diverse occupations. Muslim, Christian, traditional religion.

    an Austronesian language spoken in the province of West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), on the island of Lombok, eastern Indonesia.