The Tuttle Concise Balinese Dictionary is the only Balinese-English/English-Balinese dictionary available on the market—a new dictionary designed for foreigners and Indonesians. The use of Indonesian equivalents for all Balinese entries enables speakers of that language to make use of this revolutionary dictionary. Includes more than 18,000 entries.
About the Balinese (Bali) Language
Balinese or simply Bali is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by 3.9 million people on the Indonesian island of Bali, as well as northern Nusa Penida, western Lombok and eastern Java. Most Balinese speakers also know Indonesian. Kawi is a related priestly language.Balinese is part of the Austronesian language family, and is closely related to the Sasak and Sumbawa languages.Word order is similar to that of standard Bahasa Indonesia, and verb and noun inflectional morphology is similarly minimal. However, derivational morphology is extensive, and suffixes are applied to indicate definite or indefinite articles, and optionally to indicate possession.The Balinese script (Carakan) is an abugida, ultimately derived from the Brahmi script of India. The earliest known inscriptions date from the 11th century AD.Few people today are familiar with the Balinese script.The Balinese Script is almost the same as Javanese script. Schools in Bali today teach a form of the Latin alphabet for writing Balinese, known as Tulisan Bali.
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