Sasak Translator

About Sasak

Sasak is an Austronesian language spoken by approximately 2.5 million people on the island of Lombok in Indonesia. It is closely related to Balinese and has been shaped by centuries of cultural interaction between Hindu-Buddhist and Islamic traditions on the island.

Sasak is written using the Latin alphabet in modern usage, though it was historically written using Javanese-derived script and the Arabic-based Pegon script. The language features multiple dialects that vary significantly across Lombok, sometimes to the point of limited mutual intelligibility. An interesting fact about Sasak is that it contains a speech level system influenced by both Javanese and Balinese, reflecting Lombok's unique position at the cultural crossroads between the Hindu-Buddhist traditions of Bali and the Islamic traditions of eastern Indonesia.