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	Sundanese language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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).
		Currently, Sundanese is written in Latin script and is highly phonetical.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sundanese_language (261 words)

	Sunda
		The Sundanese people are the second largest ethnic group in Indonesia, after the Javanese, who come from the provinces of Central and Eastern Java.
		Sundanese language and manners range from highly refined and formalized, to downright vulgar and ribald.
		The best way to learn a Sundanese performing art is to be born into a family (or at least a community) of performers.
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /gamelan/page1.html (442 words)

	The Sundanese
		According to the romantic tale Kidung Sunda, the Sundanese princess was supposed to be married to Ayam Wuruk, king of Majapahit.
		From the east and west, Islam penetrated to the Priangan (central highlands) and encompassed all the Sundanese.
		As Islam came to the Sundanese, the five major pillars of the religion were emphasized but in many other areas of religious thought a syncretism developed with the original Sundanese world view.
	www.sunda.org /sundanese/sundanese.htm (3295 words)

	IMP B.ARPS page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		To begin with the recent past: even in sermons in mosques, Sundanese and (Banyumasan) Javanese may be spoken in alternation, and "during a wedding reception the audio cassettes that are played contain Sundanese tunes, while the master of ceremonies welcomes the guests in Javanese mixed with Sundanese" (Nurikhwan 1997:31).
		He talked about the population as "Sundanese, speaking Javanese", but also noted "that Sundanese words and their Javanese synonyms are mixed at random and that no attention is paid to purity of speech" (Kern 1901:382-383).
		Near the north coast of Java, the conceptual border of Sunda and Java was the Pamali river (Cipamali in Sundanese, Kali Pamali in Javanese).
	iias.leidenuniv.nl /host/imp/arps1.html (2113 words)

	Joshua Project - Peoples by Country Profiles
		The Sundanese are one of the largest groups of people yet unreached for Christ.
		To be Sundanese is, ideally, to be a rice farmer.
		Perhaps this is the reason Sundanese children seem to have a spiritual connection with their mothers rather than with their fathers.
	www.joshuaproject.net /peopctry.php?rop3=109604&rog3=ID (986 words)

	Indonesia Sundanese
		The Sundanese live principally in West Java, but their language is not intelligible to the Javanese.
		Although Sundanese religious practices share some of the HinduBuddhist beliefs of their Javanese neighbors--for example, the animistic beliefs in spirits and the emphasis on right thinking and self-control as a way of controlling those spirits--Sundanese courtly traditions differ from those of the Javanese.
		The Sundanese language possesses an elaborate and sophisticated literature preserved in Indic scripts and in puppet dramas.
	www.country-studies.com /indonesia/sundanese.html (527 words)

	Sundanese Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		When the Sundanese refer to their performing arts, they are careful to describe what they call khas Sunda -- that which is characteristically Sundanese -- a designation that bears a sense of regional identity.
		A Sundanese gamelan usually consists of a core group of metallophones (saron), horizontal gong-chime sets (bonang), vertically suspended gongs (go'ong), and a set of barrel drums (kendang).
		Gamelan degung is the other primary Sundanese gamelan; in addition to the usual instruments, it also includes a set of six hanging gongs (degung or jenglong), which gives the ensemble its name.
	academic.evergreen.edu /w/williams/gamelan.htm (1288 words)

	The Unreached Peoples - Condensed Version - Day 2
		While the Sundanese are Muslim, their religious system is flavored by Animist, Buddhist, and Hindu rituals passed down from one generation to the next.
		Sundanese respect the powers of the dead and pay homage to unseen spectators.
		This resulted in the Sundanese viewing the gospel as European, and the converts to Christianity as people who reject Sundanese ways.
	www.ad2000.org /ptw3cond/day2.htm (601 words)

	Krakatau - Biography
		The playing of tarompet in West Java is commonly associated with the traditional Sundanese martial art known as pencak silat, as the instrument is used to accompany the pencak dance.
		Sundanese keyed rnetahlophone instruments consists of iron, steel or bronze keys laid across a wooden trough and held in place with posts.
		The tonal range of the saron I is higher than saron II and it is struck by wooden hammer stricks instead of mallets.
	www.krakatau.net /music.html (963 words)

	Sundanese - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sundanese are an ethnic group in the western part of the island of Java in Indonesia.
		The word is frequently confused with the word "Sudanese", referring to the people of the country of Sudan, Africa.
		They speak a distinct language which is also known as Basa Sunda.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sundanese (83 words)

	Sundanese Traditional Bathing Ceremony -- ThingsAsian Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Only few people want to get married traditionally, not just because the costs to celebrate is expensive, and also it takes a lot of efforts to have all the procedures done.
		Sundanese is one of the largest ethnic in West Java, Indonesia.
		Before the bathing ceremony had begun some women were chanting some phrases from the Koran lead by one woman, who gave a short speech, advising either bride and groom about their future and their duties each etc.
	www.thingsasian.com /goto_article/tell_story.2512.html (708 words)

	Sundanese - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Sundanese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		There are more than 20 million speakers of Sundanese, a member of the western branch of the Austronesian family.
		Like their neighbours, the Javanese, the Sundanese are predominantly Muslim.
		They are known for their performing arts, especially jaipongan dance traditions, and distinctive batik fabrics.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Sundanese (114 words)

	Sundanese language on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Efforts to preserve Sundanese culture remain vocal, JAKARTA POST
		Sundanese music joins with Japanese songs, JAKARTA POST
		Sundanese culture slowly disappears from home, JAKARTA POST
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-S1undalng.asp (234 words)

	indahnesia.com - Populations - The Sundanese - The people of western Jawa - Discover Indonesia Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Although the Sundanese language, like Javanese, possesses elaborate speech levels, these forms of respect are infused with Islamic values, such as the traditional notion of hormat (respect--knowing and fulfilling one's proper position in society).
		On Friday at noon, sarong-clad men and boys fill the streets on their way to the mosques to join the midday prayer known as the Juma'atan which provides the visible definition of the religious community (ummah) in the Sundanese community." She also emphasized the militant pride with which Islam is viewed in Sundanese areas.
		As interregional migration increased in the 1980s and 1990s, the tendency to stereotype one another's adat in highly contrastive terms intensified, even as actual economic and social behavior were becoming increasingly interdependent.
	www.indahnesia.com /indonesia.php?page=POPSUN (543 words)

	Quiz
		The Sundanese are second to the Javanese with about 35 million in 2002.
		The formal religion of the Sundanese is Islam.
		The Sundanese call their government a democracy but it is very controlled.
	www.sunda.org /quiz/quiz.htm (420 words)

	Singapore University Press
		Sundanese Print Culture and Modernity in 19th Century West Java traces the development of modern printed books written in Sundanese, the dominant language in West Java, Indonesia, and the mother tongue of about 30 million people.
		Starting with the 'discovery' of Sundanese by Europeans in the early 19th century, Mikihiro Moriyama follows the developments in the ensuing century when a small group of Dutch scholars and colonial officials reshaped the language and its literature over the next one hundred years.
		Its development marked the end of an era when Sundanese writing competed with Western-style schools and publications, and signalled the triumph of the new colonial modernity.
	www.nus.edu.sg /SUP/9971-69-322-4.html (236 words)

	Lolongkrang Information
		The Sundanese are patriotic Indonesians, but also look back to the medieval kingdom of Sunda and the Pajajaran Empire to define their identity.
		Burhan wanted to stress the connection of the group and the music it plays to his Sundanese homeland and to emphasize his belief that the group represents the inevitable flowering of Sundanese art which, despite the American heritage of many of its members, is nevertheless "khas Sunda" (truly Sundanese).
		Palsiun Palsiun is in the "classical" degung style, which is characterized by simple drumming, intense heterophony among the bronze instruments, and phrases (marked with strokes of the large gong) of irregular lengths.
	www.pusakasunda.org /lolongkrang.html (692 words)

	The Jakarta Post: Sundanese culture slowly disappears from home, JAKARTA POST@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Nano is only one of many Sundanese artists who rarely perform in
		their hometown of Bandung, the center of Sundanese culture.
		Sundanese art and culture nowadays, saying that the artists are indifferent
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:46545105&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (184 words)

	Suling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sundanese Suling is similar to that of Javanese.
		Suling's body is made of 'tamiang' bamboo, long tube bamboo which has a very thin surface.
		6 holed Sundanese suling can play at least three different scales.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Suling (354 words)

	Sudanese Of Indonesia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It has one of the most ethnically diverse populations in the world, with more than 300 distinct people groups, many of whom are Muslim.
		The Sundanese are one of the largest groups of people yet
		As cultural change challenges the Sundanese traditional way of life, pray they will embrace the truth of Jesus.
	www.peopleteams.org /sundanese (1205 words)

	The Jakarta Post - The Journal of Indonesia Today (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The West Java legislative council and provincial administration are deliberating three bills to prevent Sundanese culture and literature from becoming extinct in the future amid the rapid drive of modern development.
		The three bills comprise a draft ruling on the preservation of the Sundanese language, literature and alphabet; a draft regulation on the preservation of local arts; and a draft law on the management of Sundanese archeology, history, museums and traditional values.
		A number of Sundanese figures strongly protested the minister and sued him for the excavation, which they claimed was illegal.
	www.thejakartapost.com /yesterdaydetail.asp?fileid=20021220.D03 (445 words)

	The People - indonesiaphoto.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		These villages, or kampung, were typically situated on the edge of rice fields, surrounding a mosque, or strung out along a road.
		The largest group were the Javanese at 45 percent of the total population.
		Sundanese made up 14 percent, followed by Madurese, 7.5 percent, and coastal Malays, 7.5 percent.
	www.indonesiaphoto.com /content/blogsection/6/41 (867 words)

	Sundanese Music: CDs
		The most famous form of Sundanese classical music is the tembang, a set of songs accompanied by two kacapis (zithers), suling (bamboo flute) and ocasionally a rebab (two-stringed violin).
		The poems are sometimes in free verse, sometimes in a rythmic arrangement, and highly ornamented, with the kacapis providing the bases of the melodic line, and the suling and rebab varying and commenting on it.
		Some very good jokes are thrown in as well, such as parodies of western and chinese music within the degung framework, and the use of some very unlikely and untraditional instruments, which nonetheless fit in remarkably well.
	www.xs4all.nl /~gjvo/gamelan/SundaCD.html (1338 words)

	Pusaka Sunda - Samagaha
		This work differs from traditional Sundanese degung pieces in a number of ways: simultaneous use of two Sundanese tunings (pelog and sorog), separate tunings for each instrument, unique gong structures, chordal relationships between parts, and "through-composed" orientation.
		While musicians in West Java have played the violin (or "biola" in Sundanese) ever since its introduction by the Dutch in the 1800's, it is still unusual to hear the violin performed with gamelan.
		Through his exemplary as the staff suling player at RRI Bandung (Radio Republik Indonesia, the Indonesian government-sponsored radio station), as well as countless recordings on the Jugala, Dian, and Hidayat labels in the '70s and '80s, he became and remains the standard by which other suling players are judged.
	www.pusakasunda.org /samagaha.html (920 words)

	Gentra Pasundan, Sundanese Wedding Ceremony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		I had absolutely no idea what to expect from this CD that "documents the complete 'Sundanese Wedding Ceremony' of West Java." According to the blurb on the back insert, "Indonesia consists of thousands of islands each with its own culture.
		The gamelan music is at times repetitive and hypnotic but always intriguing.
		Sundanese Wedding Ceremony provides the opportunity for those not familiar with Indonesian/Sundanese culture to broaden their perspectives.
	www.rambles.net /gentrap_sudan97.html (186 words)

	biblio
		"The Sundanese wayang golek: the rod puppet theatre of West Java." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Hawaii.
		Fryer, Ruth M. "Sundanese theory and practice in the performance of gamelan in Bandung, West Java." Ph.D. dissertation, Queen's University, Belfast.
		Sundanese music in the Cianjuran style: anthropological and musicological aspects of tembang Sunda.
	www.btinternet.com /~m.r.l.clayton/sekar/biblio.htm (605 words)

	Untitled Document
		The flute and soft murmur of the singer brings the mountainous countryside of West Java to the music lovers present in the Australian Embassy theatre.
		Combining musical instruments and song forms from two countries - Indonesia and Australia, the trio was cohesive and tight on the night of the performance.
		Her thesis on Sundanese music led her to receive a Master's degree from the University of New South Wales in 1993.
	www.nrg.com.au /~aiaa/news/news15/triosmadoisperform.html (647 words)

	Cultural Items : talismans, amulets, magick, culture, tribal, crafts, rituals, empowerments, spells, powers, charms, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Though some of these attractions we suspect are done through trickery, the show itself represents selected powers of what a few practitioners may truly possess.
		Sundanese instrumental music often played during local weddings.
		Sundanese instrumental music especially composed for Pencak Silat dancing.
	www.indotalisman.com /cultural.html (465 words)

	Sundanese Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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