Sasakn.adj.

1869 A. R. Wallace Malay Archipel. I. xi. 270 The aborigines of Lombock are termed Sassaks. They are a Malay race... They are Mahometans.

1897 E. J. Taylor tr. W. Cool With Dutch in East iii. 121 The language of the Sassaks is totally different from that spoken by the Balinese; although the Sassaks have borrowed many words from their neighbours, still they are unable to understand each other's language.

1961 P. Kemp Alms for Oblivion xi. 163 Almost nine-tenths of this population are Sasaks, a simple agricultural people of Malay stock.

1961 P. Kemp Alms for Oblivion xi. 166 We enlisted the Eurasian as an extra interpreter, for..he spoke Dutch, Malay, Balinese and Sasak.

1965 Language 41 294 Madurese, like some of its neighboring languages (Sundanese, Javanese, Balinese, and Sasak), has socially determined choices of words.

1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VI. 308/3 The population of Lombok is composed largely of Sasaks of Malay origin.

1817 T. S. Raffles Hist. Java II. p. cxcviii Comparative vocabulary of the Bugis, Makasar, Mandhar, Búton, Sásak, Bíma, Sembáwa, Tembóra, and Endé Languages.

1869 A. R. Wallace Malay Archipel. I. xi. 256 Beyond Mataram..is Karangassam, the ancient residence of the native or Sassak Rajahs before the conquest..by the Balinese.

1937 M. Covarrubias Island of Bali ii. 30 In 1885 there was a rebellion of Sasaks, the vassals of the Balinese in Lombok... The Sasak chiefs complained to the Dutch, asking to be freed from the tyranny of the Balinese princes.

1954 E. D. Laborde tr. C. Robequain Malaya, Indonesia, Borneo & Philippines ii. xii. 24 Balinese Hinduism is isolated between Java and Lombok, for Islam has..almost wholly won over Lombok... Sasak converts to Islam form the great majority..of the population.