Jambi Malay

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Jambi Malay
Baso Jambi
Native to
Jambi Province
EthnicityJambian, Batin etc.
Native speakers
1 million (2000 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3jax
Glottologjamb1236

Jambi Malay (

Bengkulu Province
.

Phonology

There are 25 native phonemes in Jambi Malay. These native phonemes consist of 19 consonants and 6 vowels.

Consonants

Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Dorsal Glottal
Nasal m
n
 		ɲ ŋ
Stop
 p  b
d
 		t͡ɕ  d͡ʑ k  ɡ ʔ
Fricative
 s ʁ h
Approximant w
l
 		j
Trill (
r
)

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

Front Central Back
High i u
Mid e ə o
Low a

References

  1. ^ 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

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