Kubu 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 the southern swamps of the island of
Sumatra in Indonesia by the
Kubu people
The Orang Batin Sembilan, Orang Rimba or Anak Dalam are mobile, animist peoples who live throughout the lowland forests of southeast Sumatra. Kubu is a Malays (ethnic group), Malay exonym ascribed to them. In the Malay language, the word Kubu can ...
(Orang Rimba), many of whom are nomadic. There is a degree of dialectal diversity.
In Bukit Duabelas (Jambi), the Rimba language is very glottal, which initially makes it difficult to understand. Some of the variations in Kubu isolects have been presented by Dunggio.
[Dunggio (1995). Struktur Bahasa Kubu]
References
Languages of Indonesia
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Malayic languages