| Lampung | |
|---|---|
| Lampung Api | |
| Spoken in | Indonesia |
| Region | Southern Sumatra |
| Native speakers | 827,000 (2000 census) |
| Language family |
Austronesian
|
| Writing system | Ulu script, Latin |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ljp |
Lampung Api commonly known as 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 more than a 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.
Numerals are 1 say, 2 ʁua, 3 təlu, 4 pat, 5 lima, 6 num, 7 pitu, 8 walu, 9 suay, 10 puluh, 11 səbəlas, 100 səʁatus, 1000 səʁibu.