Jambi ( jax, Baso Jambi, id, Bahasa Jambi) is a
Malayic language
The Malayic languages are a branch of the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of the Austronesian language family. The most prominent member is Malay, which is the national language of Brunei, Singapore and Malaysia; it further serves as basis for Ind ...
spoken in
Jambi province
Jambi is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the east coast of central Sumatra and spans to the Barisan Mountains in the west. Its capital and largest city is Jambi. The province has a land area of 50,160.05 km2, and a sea area of 3, ...
,
Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Gui ...
. It is closely related to
Palembang Malay in neighbouring
South Sumatra
South Sumatra ( id, Sumatra Selatan) is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the southeast of the island of Sumatra, The province spans and had a population of 8,467,432 at the 2020 Census. The capital of the province is Palembang. The prov ...
,
Riau Malay
Riau Malay (Jawi alphabet, Jawi: بهاس ملايو رياو, ''Bahasa Melayu Riau'') is a variety of the Malay language spoken in the Indonesian province of Riau.
Dialects
Riau Malay has five main dialects, which consist of:
#Kuantan
#Pangarai ...
in
Riau Province and the
surrounding islands, and
Bengkulu Malay in
Bengkulu Province
Bengkulu is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the southwest coast of Sumatra. It was formed on 18 November 1968 by separating out the former Bencoolen Residency area from the province of South Sumatra under Law No. 9 of 1967 and was f ...
.
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
External links
Traditional Jambi Malay
Agglutinative languages
Malay language
Languages of Indonesia
Malay dialects
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Malayic languages