Sundanese

Definitions

1. A member of an ethnic group in the western part of the island of Java in Indonesia, numbering approximately 42 million.
2. The language of the Sundanese people.
3. The abugida used to write the Sundanese language.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

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