Lampung language
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| Lampung | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | Indonesia | |
| Region: | Southern Sumatra | |
| Total speakers: | 1,500,000 (1981) | |
| Language family: | Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (MP) Nuclear MP Sunda-Sulawesi Lampungic Lampung |
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| Writing system: | Rencong alphabet, Roman alphabet | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | — | |
| ISO 639-3: | ljp | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Lampung language is a language spoken by about 20% Lampung people in Sumatra.
This language comes from Sundic branch, of the Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian languages and has a close relation with Sundanese, Batak, Javanese, Balinese, Malay, etc.
In ancient times Lampung language was written by Rencong alphabet, but this alphabet is strange for Lampung people himself. Later this alphabet started from "ka-ga-nga-pa-ba-ma-ta.." begins to teach in schools, as one step to maintain Lampung people's local norms.
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