Balinese language
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| Balinese Basa Bali |
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| Spoken in: | Bali, Indonesia | |
| Total speakers: | 3.8 million | |
| Language family: | Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (MP) Nuclear MP Sunda-Sulawesi Bali-Sasak Balinese |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | ban | |
| ISO/FDIS 639-3: | ban | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Balinese is the local language of the Indonesian island of Bali and the mother tongue of the Balinese people. It is spoken by 3.8 million people, equivalent to about 2.1 percent of Indonesia's population. Most Balinese speakers also speak Indonesian, the country's official language as their second language. It is spoken in Bali, in Lombok and in Java mostly by the Balinese people. It is written with the Balinese script and the Latin script.
Balinese is part of the Austronesian language family, and is closely related to the Sasak language and languages of western Sumbawa.
Balinese has different levels depending on the status of the people speaking it–low, middle, and high. Kawi is a related priestly language.
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