Lampung language
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| Lampung | ||
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| 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: | Ulu script, 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. | ||
Lampung is the name of an ethnic group and its language that is spoken in the Indonesian province of Lampung in south Sumatra. The amount of speakers is estimated at about 1,500,000.
Lampung is one of the over thousand Malayo-Polynesian languages and consists of two main dialects: Abung and Pesisir.
Before the introduction of the Roman script Lampung was written in its own script called Surat Lampung, which is a variant of the Ulu scripts used throughout central and south Sumatra. The script is little known nowadays but occasionally taught at schools.
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