Sundanese

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/sʌndəˈniːz//sundəˈniːz/

noun

A member of an ethnic group in the western part of the island of Java in Indonesia, numbering approximately 42 million.

Similar
Basa SundaSundanese language
OriginSundanese ᮞᮥᮔ᮪ᮓ →
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Meanings

nounSundanese (plural Sundanese)
  1. A member of an ethnic group in the western part of the island of Java in Indonesia, numbering approximately 42 million.

    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.

    2014, Jacqueline Knörr, Creole Identity in Postcolonial Indonesia, page 177
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    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.

    1947 April 30, “Civil War Reports Circulate in Java”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
proper noun
  1. The language of the Sundanese people.

    Synonyms: Basa Sunda

  2. The abugida used to write the Sundanese language.
adjectiveSundanese (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf or pertaining to the Sundanese people.

Synonyms & antonyms

proper nounThe language of the Sundanese people.

Similar
Basa Sunda

More synonyms by meaning

nounthe Indonesian language spoken on West Java

Similar
Sundanese language
Broader
IndonesianBahasa IndonesiaBahasa

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Sundaneseᮞᮥᮔ᮪ᮓ
  2. EnglishSundanese

From Sundanese ᮞᮥᮔ᮪ᮓ (sunda).

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Translations

Catalan sondanès
  • sondanèslanguage
Chinese Mandarin 巽他語 /巽他语, 巽他的
  • 巽他語 /巽他语 (Xùntāyǔ)language
  • 巽他的 (Xùntā de)pertaining to the Sudanese people
Dutch Soendanees, Soendanees
  • Soendaneesethnic group member
  • Soendaneeslanguage
  • Soendaneespertaining to the Sudanese people
Finnish sunda, sundalainen
  • sundalanguage
  • sundalainenpertaining to the Sudanese people
French Soundanais, Soundanaise
  • Soundanaisethnic group member
  • Soundanaiseethnic group member
  • soundanaislanguage
  • soundanaispertaining to the Sudanese people
  • soundanaisepertaining to the Sudanese people
German Sundanese, Sundanesin
  • Sundaneseethnic group member
  • Sundanesinethnic group member
  • Sundanesischlanguage
  • sundanesischpertaining to the Sudanese people
Indonesian Sunda
  • Sundapertaining to the Sudanese people
Italian sundanese, sundanese
  • sundaneseethnic group member
  • sundanesepertaining to the Sudanese people
Japanese スンダ語
  • スンダ語 (sunda-go)language
Malay bahasa Sunda, Sunda
  • bahasa Sundalanguage
  • Sundalanguage
  • Sundapertaining to the Sudanese people
Polish Sundajczyk, sundajski
  • Sundajczykethnic group member
  • sundajskilanguage
  • sundajskipertaining to the Sudanese people
Portuguese sundanês, sundanês
  • sundanêsethnic group member
  • sundanêslanguage
  • sundanêspertaining to the Sudanese people
Russian сунданский
  • сунданский (sundanskij)language
Swedish sundanesiska
  • sundanesiskalanguage
Cite this entry
APA

Sundanese. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Sundanese

MLA

“Sundanese.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Sundanese. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Sundanese,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Sundanese.

Source: Sundanese on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.