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Definition of Sundanese
1. Noun. The Indonesian language spoken in the Lesser Sunda Islands.
Definition of Sundanese
1. Proper noun. An ethnic group in the western part of the island of Java in Indonesia, numbering approximately 33 million. ¹
2. Proper noun. The language of the Sundanese people. The language is also known as Basa Sunda. ¹
3. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the '''Sundanese''' people. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sundanese
Literary usage of Sundanese
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Australian Abroad: Branches from the Main Routes Round the World by James Hingston (1879)
"THE sundanese CAPITAL. I FIND myself wondering what other place it is that the
aspect of Batavia—chief city of the land of Sunda and its straits—recalls to ..."
2. The Achehnese by Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, Richard James Wilkinson (1906)
"Other points of resemblance are not wanting, but are less obvious than the above.
Besides the sundanese Kabayan-tales, we may also compare the Si ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Between Javanese and sundanese the distinction is mainly due to the influence of
the Hindus on the former and the absence of this on the latter. ..."
4. Miscellaneous Papers Relating to Indo-China and the Indian Archipelago by Reinhold Rost (1887)
"The Low Ton°ite, on the other hand, has very little in common with the Javanese,
and it agrees more with the Malayan and sundanese, so that it is easily ..."
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