Bengkulu language
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Malayic language spoken in Indonesia
Bengkulu Malay | |
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Bahaso Bengkulu | |
Region | Bengkulu Province, Sumatra |
Ethnicity | Ethnic population: 66,000[1] |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | bke retired and subsumed into pse
[2] |
pse-ben Bengkulu, Bencoolen, Bengkulan | |
Glottolog | beng1290 |
Linguasphere | 33-AFA-du |
Bengkulu Malay or Bengkulu is a
Bengkulu, in the rest of the Indonesian province of Bengkulu and in the Pesisir Barat Regency ("west coast") of Lampung Province. It is more closely related to other Malay variants in Sumatra such as Col, Jambi Malay and Palembang Malay as well Minangkabau spoken in neighbouring West Sumatra than to the Rejang language
, which is also spoken in the province.
Phonology
Bengkulu is written in the
Rejang script
.
Consonants
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Plosive | voiceless | p ⟨p⟩ | t ⟨t⟩
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tɕ ⟨c⟩ | k ⟨k⟩ | ʔ ⟨k⟩ (coda) |
voiced | b ⟨b⟩ | d ⟨d⟩
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dʑ ⟨j⟩ | ɡ ⟨g⟩ | ||
Nasal | m ⟨m⟩ | n ⟨n⟩
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ɲ ⟨ny⟩, ⟨n⟩ (before c/j) | ŋ ⟨ng⟩ | ||
Fricative | s ⟨s⟩ | ɕ ⟨si⟩ | (h ⟨h⟩) (coda) | |||
Lateral | l ⟨l⟩
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Tap
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ɾ ⟨r⟩ | |||||
Semivowel | j ⟨y⟩ | w ⟨w⟩ |
The letters ⟨f⟩, ⟨sy⟩, ⟨v⟩ and ⟨z⟩ are used in loanwords from Indonesian.
Vowels
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close
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i ⟨i⟩ | u ⟨u⟩ | |
Middle
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ɛ ⟨e/é⟩ | ə ⟨e⟩ | ɔ ⟨o⟩ |
Open
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a~ɑ ⟨a⟩ |
Bengkulu diphthongs are ⟨ai⟩, ⟨au⟩, ⟨ia⟩ and ⟨ua⟩ (where "ia" and "ua" are used in loanwords).
References
- ^ "Bengkulu in Indonesia". Joshua Project. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
- ^ "Change Request Documentation: 2007-179". SIL International.
- * indicates proposed status
- ? indicates classification dispute
- † indicates extinct status
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