Kerinci (Kinci or Kincai) is a

Malayic language The Malayic languages are a branch of the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of the Austronesian language family. The most prominent member is Malay, which is the national language of Brunei, Singapore and Malaysia; it further serves as basis for Ind ...

spoken in

Jambi Province Jambi is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the east coast of central Sumatra and spans to the Barisan Mountains in the west. Its capital and largest city is Jambi. The province has a land area of 50,160.05 km2, and a sea area of 3, ...

Sumatra Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the sixth-largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 (182,812 mi.2), not including adjacent i ...

especially in

Kerinci Regency Kerinci is a regency (''kabupaten'') in Jambi province, on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. The regency has an area of . Kerinci Regency had a population of 229,495 at the 2010 Census, 234,912 at the 2015 Census and 250,259 at the 2020 Census; t ...

and Sungai Penuh city. It has a high dialectical diversity, with dialects Ulu, Mamaq, Akit, Talang and Sakei. Van Reijn (1974) notes that Kerinci shares many phonological similarities with

Austroasiatic languages The Austroasiatic languages , , are a large language family in Mainland Southeast Asia and South Asia. These languages are scattered throughout parts of Thailand, Laos, India, Myanmar, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Nepal, and southern China and are t ...

, such as

sesquisyllabic Primarily in Austroasiatic languages (also known as Mon–Khmer), in a typical word a minor syllable is a reduced (minor) syllable followed by a full tonic or stressed syllable. The minor syllable may be of the form or , with a reduced vowel, as ...

word structure and vowel inventory.

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*Van Reijn, E.O. (1974).
Some Remarks on the Dialects of North Kerintji: A link with Mon-Khmer Languages
" ''Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society'', 31, 2: 130-138.

* Ernanda. (2011). On the loss of the phrasal alternation in Pondok Tinggi dialect of Kerinci: A Stochastic Optimality Theory Approach (Master thesis). Faculty of *Arts. Radboud University Nijmegen. * Ernanda. (2017). Phrasal alternation in Kerinci (Doctoral Dissertation). Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. Leiden University. *McKinnon, Timothy A. (2011). ''The Morphology and Morphosyntax of Kerinci Word Shape Alternations''. University of Delaware, Doctoral Dissertation. *McKinnon, Timothy, Yanti, Peter Cole, Gabriella Hermon. 2012
''Divergent Varieties of Malay in Upstream Jambi''
Paper given at ISMIL 16. *McKinnon, Timothy A
''What is Kerinci? An closer look at the geography of its core properties''
*Usman, A. Hakim (1988). ''Fonologi dan Morfologi Bahasa Kerinci Dialek Sungai Penuh''. Jakarta: Universitas Indonesia Fakultas Pascasarjana Doctoral Dissertation. * Languages of Indonesia Languages of Malaysia Agglutinative languages Malayic languages {{malayic-lang-stub

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