Rejang language

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Not to be confused with Rejang Kayan language.
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Rejang
Native to Indonesia
Region Southwestern Sumatra
Native speakers 350,000  (2000 census)[1]
Language family
Language codes
ISO 639-3 rej

Rejang is spoken by the Rejang people in Bengkulu, Indonesia. There are five major dialects.

Classification [edit]

Rejang is not obviously close to other Malayo-Polynesian languages. McGinn (2009) classified it among the Bidayuh languages of Borneo, closest to Bukar Sadong.[2] It may be that it is related to the newly described language Nasal, but that is speculative at this point.[3]

Notes [edit]

  1. ^ Rejang at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
  2. ^ McGinn, Richard (2009) "Out-of-Borneo subgrouping hypothesis for Rejang".[1] In Adelaar & Pawley, eds, Austronesian historical linguistics and culture history
  3. ^ [2]

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