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Madurese (Bhâsa Madhurâ)
Native to: Indonesia
Region: Island of Madura, Sapudi Islands, Java, Singapore and Malaysia (as Boyanese)
Ethnicity: Madurese, Kangeanese
Native speakers: 6.7 million (2011)
Language family: Austronesian

is a language of the Madurese people of Madura Island and Eastern Java, Indonesia; it is also spoken on the neighbouring small Kangean Islands and Sapudi Islands, as well as by migrants to other parts of Indonesia, namely the eastern salient of Java (comprising Pasuruan, Surabaya, Malang to Banyuwangi), the Masalembu Islands and even some on Kalimantan. The Kangean dialect may be a separate language. It was traditionally written in the Javanese script, but the Latin script and the Pegon script (based on Arabic script) is now more commonly used. The number of speakers, though shrinking, is estimated to be 8–13 million, making it one of the most widely spoken languages in the country. Bawean, a variant of Madurese, is also spoken by Baweanese (or Boyan) descendants in Malaysia and Singapore.

Madurese is a Malayo-Sumbawan language of the Malayo-Polynesian language family, a branch of the larger Austronesian language family. Thus, despite apparent geographic spread, Madurese is more related to Balinese, Malay, Sasak and Sundanese, than it is to Javanese, the language used on the island of Java just across Madura Island.

Links between Bali–Sasak languages and Madurese are more evident with the vernacular form (common form).

LINKS:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madurese_language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madurese_people
https://omniglot.com/writing/madurese.htm
http://www.bible.is/

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