Language in Indonesia
Jambi Malay |
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Baso Jambi |
Native to | Indonesia |
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Region | Jambi Province |
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Ethnicity | Jambian, Batin etc. |
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Native speakers | 1 million (2000 census)[1] |
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Language family | |
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Language codes |
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ISO 639-3 | jax |
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Glottolog | jamb1236 |
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Jambi Malay (Jambi Malay: Baso Jambi, Indonesian: Bahasa Jambi) is a Malayic language spoken in Jambi province, Indonesia. It is closely related to Palembang Malay in neighbouring South Sumatra, Riau Malay in Riau Province and the surrounding islands, and Bengkulu Malay in Bengkulu Province.
Phonology
There are 25 native phonemes in Jambi Malay. These native phonemes consist of 19 consonants and 6 vowels.
Consonants
Notes
- /p/, /t/ and /h/ are unreleased and become [p̚], [t̚] and [h̚] and /k/ becomes a glottal stop [ʔ] in the syllable-final position.
- /k/ and /ɡ/ become palatal [c] and [ɟ] and /h/ become velar [x] when they appear before the phoneme /i/.
- /ʁ/ is pronounced as trill [r] at the end of a word.
Vowels
References
- ^ Jambi Malay at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- Yanti; Tadmor, Uri; Cole, Peter; Hermon, Gabriella. 2015. Critò Kitò: A collection of Jambi stories in the Seberang Dialect. Jakarta: Masyarakat Linguistik Indonesia [Indonesian Linguistic Society]. ISBN 978-602-17161-3-7 [Includes word list.]
- Żaneta Krulikowska, Nadra Nadra, & Muhammad Yusdi. (2020). Phonological Sketch of Malay Jambi Language of Sarolangun, Indonesia. Arbitrer, 7(2), 173–181. https://doi.org/10.25077/ar.7.2.173-181.2020
External links
Jambi Malay test of
Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator