Sundanese

See also: sundanese

English

Etymology

From Sundanese ᮞᮥᮔ᮪ᮓ (sunda).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sʌndəˈniːz/

• Audio (US):

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  (IPA^(key): /sundəˈniːz/)

Noun

Sundanese (plural Sundanese)

1. A member of an ethnic group in the western part of the island of Java in Indonesia, numbering approximately 42 million.
   • 1947 April 30, “Civil War Reports Circulate in Java”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     According to these reports, which could not be verified, the Sundanese were preparing to declare their freedom from the new Indonesian Republic and to ask the Dutch for military protection.

   • 2014, Jacqueline Knörr, Creole Identity in Postcolonial Indonesia, page 177:

     While he is now revered as a local and national hero of the Betawi, according to older legends he was in fact a Sundanese who came to Batavia from Cirebon.

Usage notes

As with other terms for people formed with -ese, the countable singular noun in reference to a person (as in "I am a Sundanese", "writing about Sundanese cuisine as a Sundanese") is uncommon and often taken as grammatically incorrect. In its place, the adjective is used, by itself (as in "I am Sundanese") or before a noun like person, man, or woman ("writing about Sundanese cuisine as a Sundanese person"). See also -ish, which is similarly only primarily used as an adjective or as a plural noun.

Translations

ethnic group member

• Dutch: Soendanees (nl) m
• French: Soundanais (fr) m, Soundanaise (fr) f
• German: Sundanese m, Sundanesin f
• Polish: Sundajczyk (pl) m
• Portuguese: sundanês (pt) m

Proper noun

Sundanese

1. The language of the Sundanese people.

   Synonym: Basa Sunda

2. The abugida used to write the Sundanese language.

Translations

language

• Catalan: sondanès (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 巽他語 / 巽他语 (Xùntāyǔ)

• Dutch: Soendanees (nl) n
• Finnish: sunda (fi)
• French: soundanais (fr) m
• German: Sundanesisch (de) n
• Japanese: スンダ語 (ja) (sunda-go)
• Malay: bahasa Sunda, Sunda
• Polish: sundajski (pl) m
• Portuguese: sundanês (pt) m
• Russian: сунданский (ru) (sundanskij)
• Sundanese: Basa Sunda
• Swedish: sundanesiska (sv) c

Adjective

Sundanese (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the Sundanese people.

Translations

pertaining to the Sudanese people

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 巽他的 (Xùntā de)

• Dutch: Soendanees (nl)
• Finnish: sundalainen
• French: soundanais (fr) m, soundanaise (fr) f
• German: sundanesisch
• Indonesian: Sunda (id)
• Italian: sundanese (it)
• Malay: Sunda
• Polish: sundajski (pl)
• Portuguese: sundanês (pt) m
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Sundanese: Sunda

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Sundanese terms

Further reading

• ISO 639-1 code su, ISO 639-3 code sun (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Sundanese, sun ⁠