Osing language

Osing
Osing
Region	East Java, Indonesia
Ethnicity	Osing people
Native speakers	300,000 (2000 census)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Javanese Osing; ; ;
Writing system	Javanese script and Latin; Pegon script (historical)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	osi
Glottolog	osin1237

An Osing speaker, recorded in Indonesia.

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. They do not want to be identified with the Javanese language.^{[citation needed]}

Some Osing words have the infix /-y-/ 'ngumbyah', 'kidyang', which are pronounced /ngumbah/ and /kidang/ in standard Javanese, respectively.^[2]

Divergent Osing vocabulary includes:^[2]

osing/sing 'not' (standard Javanese: ora)
paran 'what' (standard Javanese: åpå)
kadhung 'if" (standard Javanese:yèn,lèk,nèk)
kelendhi 'how' (standard Javanese:kepiyè,piyè)
maning 'again' (standard Javanese:manèh,the Banyumasan dialect of Javanese also uses 'maning')
isun 'I/me' (standard Javanese:aku)
rikå 'you' (standard Javanese:kowè,the Banyumasan dialect also uses "rikå")
ring/nong 'in/at/on' (standard Javanese:ning,nang,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')

References[edit]

^ Osing at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
^ ^a ^b "Projects > Javanese Dialectology > Osing Dialect". Jakarta Field Station. Archived from the original on 14 May 2011. Retrieved 14 May 2011.

Wittke, Jonas (2019). Status Planning and Regional Identity: The Case of Osing in Banyuwangi, Indonesia (Ph.D. thesis). Rice University. hdl:1911/105415.
Arps, Bernard (2010), "Terwujudnya bahasa Using di Banyuwangi dan peranan media elektronik di dalamnya (selayang pandang, 1970–2009)", in Mikihiro Moriyama; Manneke Budiman (eds.), Geliat Bahasa Selaras Zaman: Perubahan Bahasa-Bahasa di Indonesia Pasca-Orde Baru, pp. 225–248, hdl:1887/15213
Arps, Bernard (2009). "Osing Kids and the banners of Blambangan Ethnolinguistic identity and the regional past as ambient themes in an East Javanese town". Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia. 11 (1): 1. doi:10.17510/wjhi.v11i1.142.

Inside Indonesia - Bahasa Osing, Warisan Iswara Blambangan on YouTube (in Indonesian) - CNN Indonesia documentary
Bahasa Using (Osing) Banyuwangi on YouTube (in Indonesian) - Balai Pelestarian Nilai Budaya D.I. Yogyakarta documentary

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