Balinese language

"Basa Bali" redirects here. Not to be confused with Bali language (disambiguation) or Pali.

Balinese
ᬪᬵᬱᬩᬮᬶ / ᬩᬲᬩᬮᬶ1
Bhāṣa Bali / Basä bali1
Native toIndonesia
RegionBali, Nusa Penida, Lombok
Ethnicity
Native speakers
3.3 million (2000 census)[1]
Early form
Dialects
Latin script
Balinese script
Official status
Regulated byLembaga Bahasa, Aksara dan Sastra Bali[3]
Language codes
ISO 639-2ban
ISO 639-3ban
Glottologbali1278
   Balinese is the majority language where vast majority are first language speakers
   Balinese is the majority language, with other languages being spoken largely or as a second language (such as Javanese, Sasak, and Malay)
   Balinese is a minority language
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Balinese language speaker

Balinese is an Austronesian language spoken on the Indonesian island of Bali, as well as Northern Nusa Penida, Western Lombok,[4] Southern Sumatra, and Sulawesi.[5] Most Balinese speakers also use Indonesian. The 2000 national census recorded 3.3 million people speakers of Balinese, however the Bali Cultural Agency estimated in 2011 that the number of people still using the Balinese language in their daily lives is under 1 million. The language has been classified as "not endangered" by Glottolog.[2]

The higher registers of the language borrow extensively from Javanese: an old form of classical Javanese, Kawi, is used in Bali as a religious and ceremonial language.

  1. ^ Balinese at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ a b "Glottolog 4.3 - Balinese". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
  3. ^ Peraturan Daerah Provinsi Bali No 1 Tahun 2018 Tentang Bahasa, Aksara, Dan Sastra Bali (Regional Regulation 1, Article 12) (in Indonesian). 2018.
  4. ^ Ethnologue.
  5. ^ Clynes, Adrian (1995). Topics in the Phonology and Morphosyntax of Balinese (PhD thesis). Australian National University. doi:10.25911/5d77865d38e15. hdl:1885/10744.