Sasak language

Sasak
Sasak
Sasaknese
Base Sasaq; ᬪᬵᬲᬵᬲᬓ᭄ᬱᬓ᭄
Pronunciation	[ˈbasə ˈsasak]
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Lombok
Ethnicity	Sasak; Bayanese
Native speakers	2.7 million (2010)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Malayo-Sumbawan? Bali–Sasak–Sumbawa Sasak–Sumbawa Sasak; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	North Sasak (Kutó-Kuté, Bayan-Sasak); Northeast Sasak (Nggetó-Nggeté); Central Sasak (Menó-Mené); Central East Sasak-Central West Sasak (Ngenó-Ngené); Central South Sasak (Meriaq-Meriku);
Writing system	Latin script (Sasak Latin alphabet); Sasak script (a modification of the Balinese script)
Official status
Regulated by	Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
Language codes
ISO 639-2	sas
ISO 639-3	sas
Glottolog	sasa1249
ELP	Sasak
	Sasak language spoken in Lombok and Bali (only spoken by a minority): Sasak is spoken by the majority of the population or as mother language Sasak is spoken by the majority of the population, but also concurrently by a large number of speakers of other languages Sasak is a minority language
	Linguistic map of Lombok, based on 1981 data. Areas with Sasak speakers are shown in green, and Balinese speakers in red.

The Sasak language (/ˈsɑːsɑːk/ SAH-sahk; Base Sasaq, IPA: [ˈbasə ˈsasak], Sasak script: ᬪᬵᬲᬵᬲᬓ᭄ᬱᬓ᭄; Indonesian: Bahasa Sasak [baˈha.sa ˈsasak]) or Sasaknese is spoken by the Sasak ethnic group, which make up the majority of the population of Lombok, an island in the West Nusa Tenggara province of Indonesia. It is closely related to the Balinese and Sumbawa languages spoken on adjacent islands, and is part of the Austronesian language family. Sasak has no official status; the national language, Indonesian, is the official and literary language in areas where Sasak is spoken.

Some of its dialects, which correspond to regions of Lombok, have a low mutual intelligibility. Sasak has a system of speech levels in which different words are used depending on the social level of the addressee relative to the speaker, similar to neighbouring Javanese and Balinese.

Not widely read or written today, Sasak is used in traditional texts written on dried lontar leaves and read on ceremonial occasions. Traditionally, Sasak's writing system is nearly identical to Balinese script.