South Barisan Malay

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South Barisan Malay
Central Malay
Native toIndonesia
RegionBengkulu
South Sumatra
Lampung
Native speakers
1.6 million (2000)[1]
Language family
Austronesian
Dialects
Bengkulu

Enim



Lintang
Ogan

Semendo
Serawai
Language codes
ISO 639-3pse
Glottologcent2053

South Barisan Malay, also called Central Malay or Middle Malay, is a collection of related Malayic isolects spoken in the southwestern part of Sumatra. None of the Central Malay isolects has more than one million speakers.

Name[]

Traditionally, the term "Middle Malay" (a calque of Dutch term Midden-Maleisch) is used when referring to this cluster. 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" is used.[2] McDonnell (2016) uses the term "South Barisan Malay" instead, referring to the southern region of Barisan Mountains where these isolects are spoken.[3]

Varieties[]

Ethnologue groups together 12 isolects as part of Central Malay.[4]

  • Bengkulu
  • Enim
  • Lintang
  • Ogan
  • Semendo
  • Serawai

There have been few researches on individual isolects within the cluster.

References[]

  1. ^ South Barisan Malay at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Adelaar, K. Alexander (1992). Proto-Malayic: The Reconstruction of its Phonology and Parts of its Lexicon and Morphology. Pacific Linguistics, Series C, no. 119. Canberra: Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University. hdl:1885/145782.
  3. ^ McDonnell, Bradley James (2016). Symmetrical Voice Constructions in Besemah: A Usage-based Approach (PhD thesis). University of California, Santa Barbara.
  4. ^ Lewis, M. Paul; Gary F. Simons; Charles D. Fennig, eds. (2015). Ethnologue: Languages of the World (18th ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International.
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