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spoken in

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. It is closely related to

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in neighbouring

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and the surrounding islands, and Bengkulu Malay in

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Phonology

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

Consonants

Notes

* , and are unreleased and become , and and becomes a glottal stop in the syllable-final position. * and become palatal and and become velar when they appear before the phoneme . * is pronounced as trill at the end of a word.

Vowels

References

*Yanti; Tadmor, Uri; Cole, Peter; Hermon, Gabriella. 2015. ''Critò Kitò: A collection of Jambi stories in the Seberang Dialect''. Jakarta: Masyarakat Linguistik Indonesia ndonesian Linguistic Society '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

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Traditional Jambi Malay
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