Sundanese

From Sundanese ᮞᮥᮔ᮪ᮓ (sunda).

• IPA^(key): /sʌndəˈniːz/

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  (IPA^(key): /sundəˈniːz/)

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.

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.

Sundanese

1. The language of the Sundanese people.

   Synonym: Basa Sunda

2. The abugida used to write the Sundanese language.

Sundanese (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the Sundanese people.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Sundanese terms

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