Basa Sunda

Basa Sunda (literally, language of Sunda), also called Sundanese, is the language of about 27,000,000 people from the western third of Java or 13.6% of Indonesian population.

It is classified in Austronesian - Malayo-Polynesian - Western Malayo-Polynesian - Sundic language family and has several dialects based on the locations of the people:

Banten,
Bogor,
Priangan, and
Cirebon.

Priangan, which cover the most area of Sunda, is the main dialect of Sundanese language taught in elementary till junior-high schools (equivalent to ninth-year school grade).

Table of contents

1 Phonology
2 Basic Grammar

2.1 Root Word
2.2 Active Form
2.3 Negation
2.4 Question
2.5 Passive Form
2.6 Adjectives
2.7 Prepositions

2.7.1 Place
2.7.2 Time
2.7.3 Miscellaneous

2.8 Conjuctives

3 External Links

Phonology

Currently, Sundanese is written in Latin script and is highly phonetical. There are five pure vowel sounds: a (similar to the sound in bus), e (as in get), i (shorter than in eat), o (shorter than in dawn), u (as in put), and two neutral vowels like the second vowel of water which is also spelled e, and eu (as 'eau' in plateau); and no diphthong. The consonantic phonemes are rendered by the letters p, b, t, d, k, g, c (pronounced like the ch in cheese), j, h, ng (which also occurs initially), ny (as in canyon), m, n, s (unvoiced, as in sun or cats), w, l, r (trilled or flapped) and y. Other consonants that originally appear in Indonesian loanwords mostly transferred into main consonants: f -> p, v -> p, sy -> s, sh -> s, z -> j, and kh (as in loch) -> h.

Basic Grammar

(to be written).

Prepositions

Place

English	Sundanse (normal)	Sundanese (polite)
above ..	diluhureun ..	diluhureun ..
behind ..	ditukangeun ..	dipengkereun ..
under ..	dihandapeun ..	dihandapeun ..
inside ..	di jero ..	di lebet ..
outside ..	di luar ..	di luar ..
between .. and ..	di antara .. jeung ..	di antawis .. sareng ..

Time

English	Sundanese (normal)	Sundanese (polite)
before	saacan	sateuacan
after	sanggeus	saparantos
during	basa	nalika

Miscellaneous

English	Sundanese (normal)	Sundanese (polite)
from	tina	tina

Conjuctives

(to be written).

External Links

http://www.ethnologue.com/show_iso639.asp?code=sun