Austronesian family
Sundanese
c. 1500 CE – today Living
Sundanese (c. 1500 CE – today) is a living Austronesian language. Lineage: Proto-Austronesian → Proto-Malayo-Polynesian → Sundanese.
See Sundanese on the interactive map- Speakers
- 32M (32,000,000)
- ISO 639-3
- sun
- Glottocode
- sund1252
Spoken in West Java. Old Sundanese inscriptions date from the 14th century; the modern language start is nominal.
Lineage
- Proto-Austronesianc. 3,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
- Proto-Malayo-Polynesianc. 2,500 BCE – 1,500 BCE
- Sundanesec. 1500 CE – today
Sister languages 9
Also descended from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian.