varieties) lack . Due to of these contact shared innovations, the lowland group is generally treated as the basis standard of Balinese; at the 1974 congress on standardisation, the varieties of Buleleng (the capital is Singaraja) and Klungkung were recommended as models, partly because Singaraja had long served as a colonial-era administrative, educational and literary centre .

The lowland varieties are difference by themselves, often along the lines of the former regional districts (Klungkung, Karangasem, Buleleng, Gianyar, Badung, Tabanan,