Sasak language group

E33644

Austronesian language language group

The Sasak language group is a branch of the Austronesian language family spoken primarily by the Sasak people on the island of Lombok in Indonesia.

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All labels observed (5)

Label	Occurrences
Sasak language	2
Sasak dialect continuum	1
Sasak language area	1
Sasak language group canonical	1
Sasak–Samawa languages	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T200757 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Sasak language group
Context triple: [Austronesian languages, hasSubfamily, Sasak language group]

A. Bima–Sumba languages
The Bima–Sumba languages are a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily on the islands of Sumbawa and Sumba in eastern Indonesia.
B. Timor–Babar languages
The Timor–Babar languages are a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily on Timor and nearby islands in eastern Indonesia, noted for their complex phonologies and diverse grammatical structures.
C. Flores–Lembata languages
The Flores–Lembata languages are a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken on the islands of Flores and Lembata in eastern Indonesia, known for their distinctive phonological and grammatical features within the region.
D. Gorontalo–Mongondow languages
The Gorontalo–Mongondow languages are a group of closely related Austronesian languages spoken primarily in northern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
E. Muna–Buton languages
The Muna–Buton languages are a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily in southeastern Sulawesi and nearby islands in Indonesia.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Sasak language group
Target entity description: The Sasak language group is a branch of the Austronesian language family spoken primarily by the Sasak people on the island of Lombok in Indonesia.

A. Bima–Sumba languages
The Bima–Sumba languages are a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily on the islands of Sumbawa and Sumba in eastern Indonesia.
B. Timor–Babar languages
The Timor–Babar languages are a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily on Timor and nearby islands in eastern Indonesia, noted for their complex phonologies and diverse grammatical structures.
C. Flores–Lembata languages
The Flores–Lembata languages are a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken on the islands of Flores and Lembata in eastern Indonesia, known for their distinctive phonological and grammatical features within the region.
D. Gorontalo–Mongondow languages
The Gorontalo–Mongondow languages are a group of closely related Austronesian languages spoken primarily in northern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
E. Muna–Buton languages
The Muna–Buton languages are a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily in southeastern Sulawesi and nearby islands in Indonesia.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Austronesian language ⓘ language group ⓘ
belongsTo	Western Malayo-Polynesian (traditional classification) ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo	Balinese language ⓘ Javanese language ⓘ linked to: Javanese Sumbawa language ⓘ
continent	Asia ⓘ
country	Indonesia ⓘ
ethnicGroupAssociated	Sasak people ⓘ
hasAlternativeName	Basa Sasak ⓘ Sasak ⓘ
hasDialect	Kuto-Kute dialect ⓘ Meno-Mene dialect ⓘ Mriak-Mriku dialect ⓘ Ngeno-Ngene dialect ⓘ Ngeto-Ngete dialect ⓘ linked to: Ngeno-Ngene dialect
hasPhonologicalFeature	contrastive vowel length (in some dialects) ⓘ prenasalized stops (in some dialects) ⓘ
hasSociolinguisticFeature	diglossia with Indonesian ⓘ
hasStatus	regional language in Indonesia ⓘ
hasWritingSystem	Arabic script (historically, Pegon) ⓘ linked to: Perso-Arabic script Javanese script (historically) ⓘ Latin script ⓘ
influencedBy	Balinese language ⓘ Indonesian language ⓘ Javanese language ⓘ linked to: Javanese
ISO639-3	sas (macrolanguage code for Sasak) ⓘ
languageBranch	Malayo-Polynesian ⓘ linked to: Malayo-Polynesian languages
languageFamily	Austronesian ⓘ linked to: Austronesian languages
locatedInTimeZone	UTC+8 ⓘ
partOf	languages of Indonesia ⓘ languages of Lombok ⓘ
primaryIsland	Lombok ⓘ
region	West Nusa Tenggara ⓘ
spokenBy	Sasak people ⓘ
spokenIn	Indonesia ⓘ Lombok ⓘ
subclassOf	Austronesian languages ⓘ Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ
typologicalFeature	SVO word order (tendency) ⓘ agglutinative morphology (tendency) ⓘ
usedAs	marker of Sasak ethnic identity ⓘ
usedFor	daily communication ⓘ oral tradition ⓘ traditional literature ⓘ
usedIn	local religious practices ⓘ traditional Sasak ceremonies ⓘ

How these facts were elicited