Native speakers 300,000 (2000 census) Glottolog osin1237 Region Java | ISO 639-3 osi Writing system Javanese script | |
Language family Austronesian languages, Malayo-Polynesian languages | ||
The Osing language (Indonesian:Bahasa Osing), locally known as the language of Banyuwangi, is the language of the Osing people of East Java, Indonesia.
Some Osing words have the infix /-y-/ 'ngumbyah', 'kidyang', which are pronounced /ngumbah/ and /kidang/ in standard Javanese, respectively.
Divergent Osing vocabulary includes:
References
Osing dialect Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA