Osing language
| Osing | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | East Java, Indonesia |
| Ethnicity | Osing people |
Native speakers | (300,000 cited 2000 census) |
| 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 | |
The Osing language (Osing: Basa Using; Indonesian: Bahasa Osing), locally known as the language of 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 dialect.
Some Osing words have the infix /-y-/ 'ngumbyah', 'kidyang', which are pronounced /ngumbah/ and /kidang/ in standard Javanese, respectively.
A dictionary of the language was published in 2002 by Hasan Ali, an advocate for the language's use in Banyuwangi.