Tenggerese dialect

Tenggerese (sometimes referred to as Tengger Javanese) is a language used by the Tenggerese people in the mountain region of the Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park which includes Pasuruan Regency, Probolinggo Regency, Malang Regency and Lumajang Regency of East Java, Indonesia.

Tenggerese
Basa Tengger ꦧꦱꦠꦼꦁꦒꦼꦂ
Region	Java, Indonesia
Ethnicity	Tenggerese people
Native speakers	500,000[1] (2010 census)[2]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Javanese Tenggerese
Writing system	Javanese and Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tes
Glottolog	teng1272

Linguistically, Tenggerese is considered to be a dialect of Javanese, a Malayo-Polynesian language under the Austronesian language family. Some linguists regard Tenggerese as a descendant of the ancient Kawi language, as it has retained old vocabulary that is no longer used in modern.^[3]

Distribution

Tenggerese is spoken in regions that are settled by the Tenggerese people in the Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park area:

• Tosari, Pasuruan Regency
• Sakapura district, Probolinggo Regency
• Ngadas village, Poncokusomo district, Malang Regency
• Ranu Pani village, Senduro district, Lumajang Regency

Grammar

A few examples of words in Tenggerese:-

Tenggerese language	Indonesian language	English
reang	aku	I (for male)
isun	aku	I (for female)
sira	kamu	you
rika	anda	you (for an older person)

When the alphabet "A" is read as "O" in modern Javanese, in Tenggerese it is still read as "A".^[4]