Lampung Api commonly known as Lampung is the name of an ethnic group and its language that is spoken in the Indonesia

Indonesia

Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

n province of Lampung

Lampung

Lampung is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the southern tip of the island of Sumatra and borders the provinces of Bengkulu and South Sumatra. Lampung is the original home of the Lampung people, who speak a distinct language from other people in Sumatra and have their own alphabet. Its...

 in south Sumatra

Sumatra

Sumatra is an island in western Indonesia, westernmost of the Sunda Islands. It is the largest island entirely in Indonesia , and the sixth largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 with a population of 50,365,538...

. The amount of speakers is estimated at about 1,500,000.

Lampung is one of more than a thousand Malayo-Polynesian languages

Malayo-Polynesian languages

The Malayo-Polynesian languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages, with approximately 385.5 million speakers. These are widely dispersed throughout the island nations of Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean, with a smaller number in continental Asia...

 and consists of two main dialects: Abung and Pesisir.

Before the introduction of the Roman script Lampung was written in its own script called Surat Lampung, which is a variant of the Ulu scripts used throughout central and south Sumatra. The script is little known nowadays but occasionally taught at schools.

Numerals are 1 say, 2 ʁua, 3 təlu, 4 pat, 5 lima, 6 num, 7 pitu, 8 walu, 9 suay, 10 puluh, 11 səbəlas, 100 səʁatus, 1000 səʁibu.