Learn Sundanese Through Topics You Actually Care About

LingoBear creates short Sundanese passages on topics you choose. Tap any word for an instant English translation and build your vocabulary as you read. Austronesian language of western Java, written in Latin and the revived Aksara Sunda script (since 2003), speech levels, ~42M speakers.

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Every word in your Sundanese reading passage is clickable. Get English translations and grammar help — useful for navigating Sundanese speech levels (loma vs lemes).

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Type any topic and LingoBear generates a fresh Sundanese reading passage — from Bandung street food to Sundanese gamelan.

What is Sundanese and where is it spoken?

Sundanese (Basa Sunda) is an Austronesian language of western Java, spoken by around 42 million people — Indonesia's second-most-spoken local language after Javanese. It is largely confined to the West Java and Banten provinces, with diaspora communities in Lampung and Jakarta. The Sundanese homeland is centred on Bandung.

What scripts and registers does Sundanese use?

Modern Sundanese is most commonly written in the Latin alphabet, but the indigenous Aksara Sunda Baku abugida — revived officially in West Java in 2003 — is also taught in schools and used on signage. Like Javanese, Sundanese has a speech-level system: loma (familiar), lemes (polite), and sometimes intermediate lemes ka sorangan, with significant vocabulary differences between them. LingoBear can generate either.