Osing language

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Osing
Native to Indonesia
Region
Ethnicity Osing people
Native speakers
(300,000 cited 2000 census) [2]
Javanese script and Latin
Pegon script (historical)
Language codes
ISO 639-3 osi
Glottolog osin1237
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  Areas where Osing is spoken by a majority of the population
  Areas where Osing is spoken by a significant minority of the population
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An Osing speaker, recorded in Indonesia which still mixed with Indonesian language.

The Osing language (Osing: Basa Using; Indonesian : Bahasa Osing), locally known as basa Banyuwangi, is the Modern Javanese dialect of the Osing people of East Java, Indonesia. The Osing dialect uses a special diphthongization (changing the vowel [i] to [ai] and the vowel [u] to [au]) which is not found in any Other Javanese dialects. They are primarily distributed in Banyuwangi Regency, but can also be found in the eastern part of Jember Regency, particularly in Wuluhan. [1]

Contents

Some Osing words have the infix /-y-/ 'ngumbyah', 'kidyang', which are pronounced /ngumbah/ and /kidang/ in standard Javanese, respectively. [3]

A dictionary of the language was published in 2002 by Hasan Ali, an advocate for the language's use in Banyuwangi. [4]

Vocabulary

Divergent Osing vocabulary includes: [3]

References

  1. 1 2 Hasbullah, Izur (2018). "Variasi Dialektal di Kabupaten Jember dan Banyuwangi Bagian Selatan". Jurnal Sapala (in Indonesian). 5 (1). Surabaya: Universitas Negeri Surabaya . Retrieved 26 July 2025.
  2. Osing at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  3. 1 2 "Projects > Javanese Dialectology > Osing Dialect". Jakarta Field Station. Archived from the original on 14 May 2011. Retrieved 14 May 2011.
  4. "Bapak Bahasa Using itu Telah Berpulang". Tempo (in Indonesian). 15 June 2010. Retrieved 12 October 2024.

Further reading