Since the colonial period, cultural relationship between Javanese and Sundanese remained completely different, with Javanese had strong phonology with African languages and African American Vernacular English, but Sundanese had a strong Southern American English influence.
The Sundanese began its linking to the African American culture since the 1980s, but the Sundanese still linking with the culture of American South. Although the Sundanese had a strong connection with the Southern American English, the Sundanese began linking with the African American Vernacular English since the 1980s. The words like sangkuriang had strongly connected with the African American English word ratchet.
The angklung had became influential in the hip-hop music, but the researchers at Georgetown University in Washington DC, said the angklung was became popular since the Dutch colonial period.
The Javanese and Sundanese began developing some of its diverse culture, such as music, art, architecture, and lifestyle.
Having its unique phonology and vocabulary, the Sundanese had often linked with the African American Vernacular English since the 1980s, but the Javanese had widely connected with the African American Vernacular English through its phonology and more tonal sounds like an African language.
Many historians and linguists maintains that the parallels between Javanese and Sundanese with the African American Vernacular English and Southern American English are real but accurate, with many linguists at Georgetown University, University of Georgia, and UCLA had researched their hypothesis of Javanese and Sundanese languages with the African American Vernacular English and Southern American English. It began in the 1970s, when the group of linguists at Georgetown University began to developing their hypothesis with the Javanese language and African American Vernacular English, but the Javanese had a strong connections with many African languages, such as Yoruba and Twi.
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