Rejang language
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| Rejang | ||
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| Spoken in | Southwestern Sumatra, Indonesia. | |
| Total speakers | Up to 1 million. | |
| Language family | Austronesian
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | None | |
| ISO 639-2 | map | |
| ISO 639-3 | rej | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
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 Hattori, Shirô (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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