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South Barisan Malay, also called Central Malay or Middle Malay, is a collection of closely related Malayic isolects spoken in the southwestern part of Sumatra. None of them has more than one million speakers. Name Traditionally, Malayic lects in southern Sumatra are divided based on river shed and microethnic boundaries, regardless of actual similarities and differences between them. Linguists originally used the term ''Middle Malay'' (a calque of Dutch ) when referring to the closely related lects in the Pasemah-Serawai cultural region. Later, to avoid misidentification with a temporal stage of Malay language (i.e. the transition between Old Malay and Modern Malay), the term ''Central Malay'' began to be used. McDonnell (2016) uses the geographic term ''South Barisan Malay'' instead, referring to the southern region of the Barisan Mountains where these lects are spoken. Meanwhile, ''Glottolog'' uses the term ''Central Malay'' instead to refer Malayic varieties around the strait ...
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South Sumatra
South Sumatra () is a Provinces of Indonesia, province of Indonesia, located in the southeast of the island of Sumatra. The capital and largest city of the province is the city of Palembang. The province borders the provinces of Jambi to the north, Bengkulu to the west and Lampung to the south, as well a maritime border with the Bangka Belitung Islands to the east. It is the largest province in the island of Sumatra, and it is slightly smaller than Portugal, the department of Boquerón, Paraguay, Boquerón in Paraguay or the U.S. state of Maine. The Bangka Strait in the east separates South Sumatra and the island of Bangka Island, Bangka, which is part of the Bangka Belitung Islands province. The province has an area of and had a population of 8,467,432 at the 2020 census;Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2021. the official estimate as at mid-2023 was 8,743,522 (comprising 4,453,902 males and 4,289,620 females).Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 28 February 2024, ''Provinsi Sumatera Sel ...
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Serawai Language
South Barisan Malay, also called Central Malay or Middle Malay, is a collection of closely related Malayic isolects spoken in the southwestern part of Sumatra. None of them has more than one million speakers. Name Traditionally, Malayic lects in southern Sumatra are divided based on river shed and microethnic boundaries, regardless of actual similarities and differences between them. Linguists originally used the term ''Middle Malay'' (a calque of Dutch ) when referring to the closely related lects in the Pasemah-Serawai cultural region. Later, to avoid misidentification with a temporal stage of Malay language (i.e. the transition between Old Malay and Modern Malay), the term ''Central Malay'' began to be used. McDonnell (2016) uses the geographic term ''South Barisan Malay'' instead, referring to the southern region of the Barisan Mountains where these lects are spoken. Meanwhile, ''Glottolog'' uses the term ''Central Malay'' instead to refer Malayic varieties around the strait ...
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Barisan Mountains
The Bukit Barisan or the Barisan Mountains are a mountain range on the western side of Sumatra, Indonesia, covering nearly 1,700 km (1,050 mi) from the north to the south of the island. The Bukit Barisan range consists primarily of volcanoes shrouded in dense jungle cover, including Sumatran tropical pine forests on the higher slopes. The highest peak of the range is Mount Kerinci at 3,800 metres (12,467 ft). The Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park is situated towards the southern end of the range in Liwa, Indonesia. The name Bukit Barisan actually means "row of hills" or "hills that make a row" in Malay, for the range stretches end to end along the island of Sumatra. There are 35 active volcanoes in Bukit Barisan. The largest is the supervolcano Toba within the 100 km (62 miles) × 30 km (19 miles) Lake Toba, which was created after a caldera collapse (est. in 74,000 Before Present). The eruption is estimated to have been at level eight ...
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Pekal Language
Pekal is a Malayic language spoken by around 30,000 people on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia, more specifically in Mukomuko Regency in Bengkulu Province. It should not be confused with Mukomuko language which is much more closely related but distinct from Pekal. It also has a considerable influence from Rejang language Rejang (, ) is an Austronesian language predominantly spoken by the Rejang people in southwestern parts of Sumatra ( Bengkulu), Indonesia. There are five dialects, spread from mountainous region to the coastal region of Bengkulu, including the ..., which is the most widely spoken language in the province. Comparison References Languages of Indonesia Malayic languages {{malayic-lang-stub ...
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Kaur Language
Kaur (Ka’ur) is a Malayic language spoken in Bengkulu province on the southeastern coast of the island of 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 list of islands by area, sixth-largest island in the world at 482,286.55 km2 (182,812 mi. ... in Indonesia. It is difficult for speakers of neighboring Central Malay (Bengkulu) to understand. Many speakers are animists. References Languages of Indonesia Agglutinative languages Malay dialects Malayic languages {{malayic-lang-stub ...
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Sarawak Malay
Sarawak Malay ( Standard Malay: ''Bahasa Melayu Sarawak'' or ''Bahasa Sarawak'', Jawi: , Sarawak Malay: ''Kelakar Sarawak'') is a Malayic language native to the State of Sarawak. It is a common language used by natives of Sarawak and also as the important mother tongue for the Sarawakian Malay people. The Sarawakian Malay language also bears strong similarities with the West Kalimantan Malay language around Sanggau, Sintang and Sekadau in the northern part of the West Kalimantan province of Indonesia. Dialects According to Asmah Haji Omar (1993), Sarawak Malay can be divided into three dialects which are: * Kuching * Saribas * Sibu Features Sarawak Malay has features that are not found in Standard Malay, of which some of them are closer to colloquial Indonesian: * Sarawak Malay has only one diphthong which is unlike Standard Malay which has three which are . * The diphthongs in Standard Malay correspond to monophthongs in Sarawak Malay so ''pandai'' and ''pul ...
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Riau Malay Language
Riau Malay ( Riau Malay: ''Bahase Melayu Riau'' or ''Bahaso Melayu Riau'', Jawi: بهاس ملايو رياو) is a collection of Malayic languages primarily spoken by the Riau Malays in Riau and the Riau Islands in Indonesia. The language is not a single entity but rather a dialect continuum consisting of numerous dialects, some of which differ significantly from one another. Each of these dialects has its own subdialects or isolects, which also exhibit differences from one another. Due to the influx of migrants from other parts of Indonesia, some Riau Malay dialects have been influenced by other regional languages of Indonesia, such as Bugis, Banjarese and Minangkabau. The Riau Malay dialect spoken on Penyengat Island in Tanjung Pinang, once the seat of the Riau-Lingga Sultanate, was recognized by the Dutch during the colonial era and became the ''lingua franca'' across the Indonesian archipelago. The Dutch standardized form of the Penyengat Riau Malay, known as Netherl ...
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