Sasak language group

E33644

Austronesian language language group

The Sasak language group is a branch of the Austronesian language family spoken primarily by the Sasak people on the island of Lombok in Indonesia.

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Austronesian language → language group →
belongsTo	Western Malayo-Polynesian (traditional classification) →
closelyRelatedTo	Balinese language → Javanese language → Sumbawa language →
continent	Asia →
country	Indonesia →
ethnicGroupAssociated	Sasak people →
hasAlternativeName	Basa Sasak → Sasak →
hasDialect	Kuto-Kute dialect → Meno-Mene dialect → Mriak-Mriku dialect → Ngeno-Ngene dialect → Ngeto-Ngete dialect →
hasPhonologicalFeature	contrastive vowel length (in some dialects) → prenasalized stops (in some dialects) →
hasSociolinguisticFeature	diglossia with Indonesian →
hasStatus	regional language in Indonesia →
hasWritingSystem	Arabic script (historically, Pegon) → Javanese script (historically) → Latin script →
influencedBy	Balinese language → Indonesian language → Javanese language →
ISO639-3	sas (macrolanguage code for Sasak) →
languageBranch	Malayo-Polynesian →
languageFamily	Austronesian →
locatedInTimeZone	UTC+8 →
partOf	languages of Indonesia → languages of Lombok →
primaryIsland	Lombok →
region	West Nusa Tenggara →
spokenBy	Sasak people →
spokenIn	Indonesia → Lombok →
subclassOf	Austronesian languages → Malayo-Polynesian languages →
typologicalFeature	SVO word order (tendency) → agglutinative morphology (tendency) →
usedAs	marker of Sasak ethnic identity →
usedFor	daily communication → oral tradition → traditional literature →
usedIn	local religious practices → traditional Sasak ceremonies →

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Lombok ("Sasak language") →	hasLanguage
Austronesian languages →	hasSubfamily
Nusa Tenggara ("Sasak language") →	language