Tengger

TES

vigorous

Alternate Names: Tenggerese

Dialects: None known. May be marginally intelligible with Javanese ,.

Genealogy:

Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Javanese

Demographics: 80,000 (2000 census).

Language Use: 20% also use Indonesian [ind]. Also use Javanese [jav].

Language Development: Literacy rate in L2: 20%.

Writing System: Javanese

Nation of Origin: Indonesia

Other Comments: Ethnically distinct from Javanese. Hindu.