Baduy language

Baduy
Basa Baduy
Basa Sunda Kanékés
Pronunciationba.dʊj or ka.nɛ.kɛs
Native toIndonesia
RegionBanten Province
EthnicityBaduy
Native speakers
11,620 (2015 census)[1]
Early form
Initially it was spoken language. There is no official writing system used for Baduy, but for the purposes of linguistic analysis, the Latin (especially Sundanese alphabet) is used to write Baduy.
Language codes
ISO 639-3bac
Glottologbadu1237
Linguasphere31-MFN-b
alt=   Areas where the Baduy language is spoken predominately   areas where the Baduy language is spoken in a minority
  Areas where the Baduy language is spoken predominately
  areas where the Baduy language is spoken in a minority
Baduy is not endangered according to the classification system of the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Baduy (or sometimes referred to as Kanekes) is one of the Sundanese-Baduy languages spoken predominantly by the Baduy people.[2] It is conventionally considered a dialect of Sundanese,[3] but it is often considered a separate language due to its diverging vocabulary and cultural reasons that differ from the rest of the Sundanese people.[4] Native speakers of the Baduy language are spread in regions around the Mount Kendeng, Rangkasbitung district of Lebak Regency and Pandeglang Regency, Banten Province, Indonesia. It is estimated that there are 11,620 speakers as of 2015.[1]

Just like Sundanese, Baduy based on linguistic typology is a language that sequences sentence structure elements of type subject–verb–object word order. As an agglutinative language, Baduy has various affixes which are still productive. Verbs can be distinguished into transitive and intransitive forms, as well as active and passive.

  1. ^ a b Johan Iskandar & Budiawati S. Iskandar (October 2016). "Ethnoastronomy-The Baduy agricultural calendar and prediction of environmental perturbations" (PDF). Biodiversitas. 17 (2): 696. ISSN 1412-033X. Retrieved 2017-07-17.
  2. ^ "Language: Badui". Joshua Project. Retrieved 2017-07-17.
  3. ^ Florey, M., Language Shift and Endangerment, in Adelaar & Himmelmann (2005), pp. 51
  4. ^ Yulianti & Firdaus (2021), pp. 215.