Rejang language
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| Rejang | |
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| Spoken in | Southwestern Sumatra, Indonesia. |
| Native speakers | Up to 1 million. (date missing) |
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| ISO 639-3 | rej |
Rejang is spoken by the Rejang people in Bengkulu, Indonesia. It is a Malayo-Polynesian language but has not been further classified. It has five major dialects. The language is quite different from the similarly named language group Rejang–Baram which is spoken on the island of Borneo in Sarawak and Kalimantan.
It is estimated that there are up to a million Rejang speakers.[1]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Wurm, Stephen A. and Shiro Hattori (eds.) (1981) Language Atlas of the Pacific Area Australian Academy of the Humanities in collaboration with the Japan Academy, Canberra, ISBN 0-85883-239-9
[edit] References
- McGinn, Richard (1999) "The Position of Rejang In Relation to Malay and the 'Ablaut' Languages of Northwest Borneo" in Zeitoun, Elizabeth and Paul Jen-kuei Li, eds., Selected Papers from the Eighth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics Symposium Series of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Number 1, Taipei, Taiwan, ISBN 957-671-632-2;
[edit] External links
- Rejang Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version;
- "Archive of Materials for the Study of the Rejang Language of Sumatra" ;
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