Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Sunda language


Related Topics

In the News (Wed 23 Dec 09)

  
  Sundanese - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The word "Sunda" may originate from Sanskrit, in which case it might mean either 'light' or 'water'.
The Sundanese language is spoken by approximately 27 million people and is the second most widely-spoken regional language in Indonesia, after Javanese.
This language is spoken in the southern part of the Banten province, and most of West Java (excepting the northern coastal areas which has seen significant urbanization), and eastwards as far as the Cipamali river in Brebes, Central Java.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sundanese   (310 words)

  
 Sundanese language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sundanese (Basa Sunda, literally "language of Sunda") is the language of about 27,000,000 people from the western third of Java or about 15% of Indonesian population.
Priangan, which cover the most area of Sunda, is the main dialect of Sundanese language taught in elementary till junior-high schools (equivalent to ninth-year school grade).
Based on the statement above, it is clear that the Sundanese language has only 16 consonants, there are three consonants /f, v, z/ which exist in Sundanese as a result of borrowing words, but naturally they are not Sundanese consonants.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sundanese_language   (549 words)

  
 Linguistik - Wikipédia
Whereas prescriptivists might want to stamp out what they perceive as "incorrect usage", descriptivists seek to find the root of such usage; they might describe it simply as "idiosyncratic", or they may discover a regularity that the prescriptivists don't like because it is perhaps too new or from a dialect they don't approve of.
For linguistic research that uses the methods of corpus linguistics and computational linguistics, written language is often much more convenient for processing large amounts of linguistic data.
Noam Chomsky's formal model of language, transformational-generative grammar, developed under the influence of his teacher Zellig Harris, who was in turn strongly influenced by Leonard Bloomfield, has been the dominant one from the 1960s.
su.wikipedia.org /wiki/Linguistik   (1362 words)

  
 Sundanese Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The boundary between West and Central Java lies at the eastern foothills of the Priangan Highlands, and a wide band of west-central Java from north to south incorporates cultural elements from both West and Central Java.
Tembang Sunda is a type of sung poetry developed in the regency of Cianjur in the late 1800s.
Tembang Sunda is traditionally performed in the evenings for the descendents of the Sundanese aristocracy.
academic.evergreen.edu /w/williams/gamelan.htm   (1288 words)

  
 Intel Education: An Innovation Odyssey Story 73
Sunda encourages students to put on their own "thinking caps" to make the units graphically interesting, as well as having high-quality content.
Sunda's gifted resource classroom is equipped with eight computers, and the school has another 28 computers in a technology lab.
Sunda's students can also use a scanner, color printer, digital camera, and CD writer during their daily, 90-minute language arts class.
www97.intel.com /odyssey/Story.aspx?storyID=073   (524 words)

  
 The Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) Language Family
Austronesian is one of the largest language families in the world, both in terms of the number of languages (1244) and in terms of its geographical extent.
These languages are widely spoken and understood as native or as second languages in their respective countries.
It is worth noting that many of the languages included in the Austronesian family have only a handful of speakers each, especially in Melanesia, where the average is roughly one language for every 1,500 people.
www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/june/austronesianLanguageFamily.html   (704 words)

  
 Sunda
The culture and language of Sunda are quite distinct from those of Java, although they are certainly related.
Sundanese language and manners range from highly refined and formalized, to downright vulgar and ribald.
Such contrasts are reflected in the performing arts, ranging from the exquisite melancholy of courtly poetry sung in tembang Sunda, to rhythmic farts squeezed from the armpits of ngajibrut street entertainers.
mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /gamelan/page1.html   (442 words)

  
 Ancient Sunda
According to the legend, Galuh kingdom with Karang Kamulyan as its capital city, existed in Tanah sunda (land of Sunda) in the pre-historic Hindu Buddhist stone period, until the beginning of the Islamic arrival to Banten in the 14th century.
Europeans first came to Tanah Sunda in 1511 when Portuguese merchants arrived in Sunda Kelapa or Jayakarta (the harbor of Pajajaran kingdom) and, in cooperation with a Pajajaran prince called Pangeran Jayakarta, established a port there.
Except for occupation by the British from 1811-1816, Tanah Sunda was a Dutch colony until the establishment of Indonesia in 1945 when Tanah Sunda started to become one of its provinces.
members.tripod.com /Hadiyana/sundaancient.htm   (643 words)

  
 Foreign Language Resource Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Package of various software technologies which enable the user to automatically classify audio data into various types such as words, phrases, music, etc. Enables identification of where a particular word or phrase was spoken and of who was speaking.
Language analysers for interpreting natural language for computers and apps developers.
TM SYSTEMS is the EMMY Award Winning language translation, dubbing,subtitling and closed captioning sytem, that reduces all time and costs traditionally associated with every step of the process by more than 40%.
flrc.mitre.org /Tools/reports/products_list.pl?LID=169   (1119 words)

  
 Cupumanik :: Rancagé   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
His original intention was to revitalize the development of the Sundanese literature, as he assumed that the Sundanese literature is facing an alarming challenge because of deterioration in the attitude of the Sundanese community towards its own language, literature and culture.
Aware that this manner of providing awards could only continue so long as Ajip Rosidi is alive, his family and friends had decided to ensure that the award could be continued beyond the lifetime of a person.
One of the direct outcomes of the conference was the establishment of the Sundanese Study Centre, which is already in function in Bandung.
www.cupumanik.com /c_rancage.php   (964 words)

  
 Sunda Islands. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
It includes two main groups: the Greater Sunda Islands, to which belong the largest islands of Borneo, Sumatra, Java, and Sulawesi; and the Lesser Sundas, which lie E of Java and include Sumbawa, Flores, Timor, and Sumba (the largest islands).
Bali and Lombok, although smaller, are the most important of the Lesser Sundas.
The Lesser Sundas, which were renamed Nusa Tenggara [southeastern islands] in 1954, form two provinces within Indonesia.
www.bartleby.com /65/su/SundaIsl.html   (183 words)

  
 RMIsaac's LinguaPages
The National Center for the Hebrew Language is underwritten by The Jewish Agency's Department of Education and publishes a newsletter, IvritNow, and a vocabulary-building supplement, "Today's Word." The NCHL maintains a Hebrew Language Resource Center for both the general public and professionals in the field.
Revival of the Hebrew Language: it re-emerged in the 1880s as a modern cultural medium, becoming a vital factor in the national revival movement which culminated in the creation of the State.
Language Construction Kit: "This set of webpages...is intended for anyone who wants to create artificial languages-- for a fantasy or an alien world, as a hobby, as an interlanguage.
www.eskimo.com /~rmisaac/lang.html   (2887 words)

  
 Indonesian workers fined for not talking proper. 07/02/2005. ABC News Online
The culture and tourism office in Indonesia's west Java province has imposed a fine on employees found misusing the local dialect in a bid to preserve the language, a report says.
Indonesia has more than 300 separate languages and a Malay lingua franca widely used in the archipelago has been declared as the country's official language.
But a 2003 law accords local authorities the right to include the teaching and use of local dialects in schools and the partial use of the language at work.
www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200502/s1297548.htm   (211 words)

  
 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Sundanese language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
A change in the forest: myth and history in West Java.
A princess from Sunda: some aspects of Nyai Roro Kidul.
Syllabically conditioned coalescence and deletion in Zoque: an optimality-theoretic approach.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/x/x-s1undalng.asp   (212 words)

  
 forum.indahnesia.com - Fines reportedly introduced to protect Indonesian dialect - Discover Indonesia Online
The Pikiran Rakyat daily says the new ruling, which came into effect last week, is an attempt to to preserve the local Sunda language.
Indonesia has more than 300 separate languages and a Malay tongue widely used in the archipelago has been declared the country's official language.
But under a law introduced in 2003, local authorities have the right to include the teaching and use of local dialects in schools and the partial use of the language at work.
forum.indahnesia.com /Forum.php?t=1248   (215 words)

  
 Wilujeng Sumping | Jamparing Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Wilujeng sumping kana Jamparing, ramatloka munggaran kamus Sunda sadunya.
Dina kamus Sunda-Indonesia, aya kirang langkung 6500 kecap dina basa Sunda anu kateranganana diserat dina Bahasa Indonesia.
Kotak dihandap ieu pikeun maluruh kecap-kecap dina basa Sunda atanapi Indonesia anu seja dipilari hartosna atanapi papasanganana (sinonim).
lssitb.f2o.org /kamus   (119 words)

  
 A Welsh View: Language
Yet if we go back only a few thousand years, none of these languages were spoken in their respective countries and indeed none of these languages existed anywhere in the world.
It has long been known that the two languages stem from Indo-European, the "mother of all languages" - but the peculiar similarities between the two accents when spoken in English are remarkable.
There is also a neat reverse dictionary feature that allows you to search for a word if you know just it's definition, explore related concepts, generate a list of words in a category and solve crossword puzzles.
xo.typepad.com /blog/language   (5635 words)

  
 Search OLAC Archives - German   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
alphabet corpus description dictionary discourse documentation grammar language lexicon linguistics morphology phonology recording speech syntax text
It contains aprogramming language for the modelling of morphology and syntax grammars....
StressTyp is a database containing information about word-level stress patterns of (some of) the languages of the world.
www.language-archives.org /tools/search?query=German   (786 words)

  
 Sundanese - TheBestLinks.com - Indonesia, Language, Latin alphabet, Austronesian, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Sundanese - TheBestLinks.com - Indonesia, Language, Latin alphabet, Austronesian,...
Basa Sunda (literally, language of Sunda), also called Sundanese, is the language of about 27,000,000 people from the western third of Java or 13.6% of Indonesian population.
Currently, Sundanese is written in Latin script and is highly phonetical.
www.thebestlinks.com /Sundanese.html   (274 words)

  
 Ethnologue report for language code:sun
60% use Indonesian and 5% use Dutch as second language.
Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:
This web edition of the Ethnologue contains all the content of the print edition and may be cited as:
www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=sun   (65 words)

  
 Easy to learn and pronounce Balinese
Balinese is the native language of the people of Bali, a relatively small island of 3 million people in the lesser Sunda island chain in the southern portion of the Indonesian archipelago and one of the many island cultures that comprise the present nation of Indonesia.
Fortunately the most different form, almost a different language, is used when speaking with high caste individuals or priests, and therefore plays little role in daily communication with foreigners.
Perhaps because their language is under pressure from Bahasa Indonesian, perhaps also because they are an exceptionally exuberant and friendly culture anyway, and also maybe because the language can be difficult to pronounce and as a result they never hear Westerners speaking it.
www.coralreeffish.com /balinese.htm   (1790 words)

  
 The Alternative Dictionaries
The Alternative dictionaries are a collection of various forms of "bad language" from many languages.
The requirements are less strict for minor languages.
Note that the previous version of the system had far fewer requirements, and that the quality of these entries may vary.
www.notam02.no /~hcholm/altlang   (223 words)

  
 Welcome
Normally, you will find them on the internet under the name Sunda which is their Indonesian name.
We can field Indonesian language questions as well as English.
Our Indonesian will not be perfect but we think you will be able to understand it.
www.sunda.org   (285 words)

  
 Catcha Indonesia: Education/Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
American English Services- American English Services was established in Prague, the Czech Republic, in 1995 to provide English language and communication training to embassy personnel and directors of multi-national corporations.
American Language Center- American Language Center of Jakarta is an Indonesian owned and managed training organization which provides specific and technical language instruction for government departments, banks, agencies, and the commercial and industrial sectors.
Ethnologue: Indonesia, Irian Jaya- Languages of Irian Jaya
www.catcha.co.id /www/Education/Language   (211 words)

  
 Arizona Learning Interchange
This unit is designed to help students understand the life cycle of a butterfly through hands-on activities, literature, cooperative groups, and direct instruction.
Using digital video cameras and video editing software, and weaving language arts with technology skills, students work in cooperative groups to produce a newsmagazine for their school.
Project Venture is a $4.8 million Technology Innovation Challenge Grant focused on technology professional development using a coaching/mentoring model.The coaching/mentoring training model used by each Project Venture district is designed to meet the needs a wide-range of teachers and student populations.
ali.apple.com /ali_sites/azli/nav2.shtml   (656 words)

  
 Language arts - Homework Center - Multnomah County Library
Language arts - Homework Center - Multnomah County Library
Find synonyms (words that mean the same), antonyms (words that have the opposite meaning) and similar words and phrases.
The University of British Columbia library offers practical steps for starting your research paper.
www.multcolib.org /homework/langhc.html   (414 words)

  
 eNewsletter
Their population in 2000 is estimated to be 22,559,700, and less than 1 percent are Christians.
The Sundanese have their own language, Sunda, but most also speak Javanese.
The Sundanese are culturally similar to the Javanese, but they claim to be more informal and open.
www.thetask.org /students/eNewsletters/Spring00_3.htm   (444 words)

  
 Teachers' Corner E-Mail List - Indonesia (3)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
I teach: english language at junior high school/senior high school level.
I teach: Indonesia Language at Grade 3 at primary school level.
I teach: Indonesian language/ Malay Language at Secondary 1 and Secondari 2 level.
teachers-corner.net /indonesiat3.html   (1866 words)

  
 Indonesian Gospel Resources
More than 300 languages and dialects are spoken by the 360 ethnic groups scattered through the islands of Indonesia.
Campus Crusade for Christ has produced this beautiful film of the gospel of Luke and translated it into over 600 languages, including Indonesian, Bali, Javanese, May and Sunda.
Rosetta Stone is used by Fortune 500 companies, NASA, the US State Department, and thousands of homeschool students.
www.ethnicharvest.org /peoples/countries/indonesia.htm   (641 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.