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Sundanese
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sundanese
English
su
Etymology
en sa
From en su ᮞᮥᮔ᮪ᮓ.
Pronunciation
en /sʌndəˈniːz/
en En-us-Sundanese.ogg US (en /sundəˈniːz/)
Noun
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A member of an ethnic group in the western part of the island of Java in Indonesia, numbering approximately 42 million.
Civil War Reports Circulate in Java 1947-04-30 https://www.nytimes.com/1947/04/30/archives/civil-war-reports-circulate-in-java-sundanese-plan-to-proclaim.html 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.
en 2014 Jacqueline Knörr Creole Identity in Postcolonial Indonesia 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.
Usage notes
Translations
ethnic group member
Dutch: nl Soendanees m
French: fr Soundanais m, fr Soundanaise f
German: de Sundanese m, de Sundanesin f
Italian: it sundanese mf
Polish: pl Sundajczyk m
Portuguese: pt sundanês m
Proper noun
+ language
The language of the Sundanese people.
en Basa Sunda
The abugida used to write the Sundanese language.
Translations
language
Catalan: ca sondanès m
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 巽他語 Xùntāyǔ
Dutch: nl Soendanees n
Finnish: fi sunda
French: fr soundanais m
German: de Sundanesisch n
Japanese: ja スンダ語 sunda-go
Malay: ms bahasa Sunda, ms Sunda
Polish: pl sundajski m
Portuguese: pt sundanês m
Russian: ru сунданский
Sundanese: su Basa Sunda
Swedish: sv sundanesiska c
Adjective
-
Of or pertaining to the Sundanese people.
Translations
pertaining to the Sudanese people
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 巽他 巽他的 Xùntā de
Dutch: nl Soendanees
Finnish: fi sundalainen
French: fr soundanais m, fr soundanaise f
German: de sundanesisch
Indonesian: id Sunda
Italian: it sundanese
Malay: ms Sunda
Polish: pl sundajski
Portuguese: pt sundanês m
Spanish: es
Sundanese: su Sunda
See also
su
Further reading
1 su sun
sun
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