Osing language

The Osing language (Osing: Basa Using; Indonesian: Bahasa Osing), locally known as the language of Banyuwangi, is the language of the Osing people of East Java, Indonesia.

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Osing
Native to	Indonesia
Region	East Java, Indonesia
Ethnicity	Osing people
Native speakers	(300,000 cited 2000 census)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Javanese Osing
Writing system	Javanese script and Latin Pegon script (historical)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	osi
Glottolog	osin1237
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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Some Osing words have the infix /-y-/ 'ngumbyah', 'kidyang', which are pronounced /ngumbah/ and /kidang/ in standard Javanese, respectively.^[2]

A dictionary of the language was published in 2002 by Hasan Ali, an advocate for the language's use in Banyuwangi.^[3]

Divergent Osing vocabulary includes:^[2]

• osing/sing 'not' (standard Javanese: ora)
• paran 'what' (standard Javanese: åpå Paran in standard Javanese mean existing)
• kadhung 'if" (standard Javanese: yèn, lèk, nèk, dhonge)
• kelendhi 'how' (standard Javanese: kepiyè, piyè)
• maning 'again' (standard Javanese: manèh, the Banyumasan dialect and some Gresik of Javanese also uses 'maning')
• isun 'I/me' (standard Javanese: aku, Kedu and Gresik sometimes also uses 'isun')
• rikå 'you' (standard Javanese: kowè, the Banyumasan dialect also uses "rikå")
• ring/nong 'in/at/on' (standard Javanese: ning, nang, Malang also uses 'nong', the Balinese language and Old Javanese also uses "ring")
• masiyå/ambèknå 'even if'/'although' (standard Javanese: senadyan, senajan, najan, the Arekan dialect of Javanese also uses 'masiyå' / ambekna )