Col (pronounced: ), or Lembak (also known as ), is a
Malayic language from
Sumatra. It is spoken by around 145,000 speakers (2000) with most speakers found in
Lubuklinggau Municipality,
South Sumatra
South Sumatra ( id, Sumatra Selatan) is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the southeast of the island of Sumatra, The province spans and had a population of 8,467,432 at the 2020 Census. The capital of the province is Palembang. The pro ...
, and the areas surrounding it, all the way to
Musi Rawas in
South Sumatra
South Sumatra ( id, Sumatra Selatan) is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the southeast of the island of Sumatra, The province spans and had a population of 8,467,432 at the 2020 Census. The capital of the province is Palembang. The pro ...
. The speakers of this language belong to the Lembak ethnic group, a small ethnic group closely related to ethnic Malays, especially those of Bengkulu and Palembang Malays. Col is closely related to
Palembang Malay and
Bengkulu Malay with minor differences mostly in pronunciation. Bengkulu Malay and Palembang Malay tend to end words with "o" while Col usually ends them with "e". The language has its own ISO code, .
References
Languages of Indonesia
Agglutinative languages
Malay dialects
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Malayic languages