Bengkulu language
| Bengkulu Malay | |
|---|---|
|
Pasemah Melayu Tengah | |
| Region | Bengkulu Province, Sumatra |
Native speakers | 1.6 million (2000 census)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
pse |
| Glottolog |
cent2053[2] |
Bengkulu or Central Malay, is a Malayan language spoken on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, around the city of Bengkulu. It is more closely related to other Malay variants in Sumatra such as Col, Jambi Malay and Palembang Malay as well Minangkabau spoken in neighbouring West Sumatra than to Rejang, which is also spoken in the province.
References
- ↑ Bengkulu Malay at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Central Malay". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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