Osing language
| Osing Basa Using ꦧꦱꦲꦸꦱꦶꦁ | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region |
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| Ethnicity | Osing people |
Native speakers | (300,000 cited 2000 census) |
Austronesian
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| Javanese script and Latin Pegon script (historical) | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | osi |
| Glottolog | osin1237 |
Areas where Osing is spoken by a majority of the population
Areas where Osing is spoken by a significant minority of the population | |
The Osing language (Osing: Basa Using; Indonesian: Bahasa Osing), locally known as basa Banyuwangi, is the Modern Javanese dialect of the Osing people of East Java, Indonesia. The Osing dialect uses a special diphthongization (changing the vowel [i] to [ai] and the vowel [u] to [au]) which is not found in any Other Javanese dialects. They are primarily distributed in Banyuwangi Regency, but can also be found in the eastern part of Jember Regency, particularly in districts of Panti and Wuluhan.
Some Osing words have the infix /-y-/ 'ngumbyah', 'kidyang', which are pronounced /ngumbah/ and /kidang/ in standard Javanese, respectively.
A dictionary of the language was published in 2002 by Hasan Ali, an advocate for the language's use in Banyuwangi.