In Reply to: Basa Bali posted by ardjuna2000 on Monday, 20. August 2007 at 18:54 Bali Time:
My mistake here is a copy it is 1200 languages in Indonesia not just BaliUser-Friendly Guide to Spoken Balinese
the colloquial language of the island of Bali in Indonesia...
formulated by Benjamin Victor during the 9th International Coral Reef Symposium in Bali, Indonesia
Oct. 2000/ updated 11-2005
Balinese is the native language of the people of Bali, a relatively small island of 3 million people in the lesser Sunda island chain in the southern portion of the Indonesian archipelago and one of the many island cultures that comprise the present nation of Indonesia. It has been said that there are at least 1200 languages spoken in Indonesia, and the official language is now Bahasa Indonesia (often shortened to Bahasa, which means "language"),