Kubu is a
Malayic language
The Malayic languages are a branch of the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of the Austronesian language family. The two most prominent members of this branch are Indonesian and Malay. Indonesian is the official language of Indonesia and has evolved ...
spoken in the southern swamps of the island of
Sumatra
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in Indonesia by the
Kubu people (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
Malayic languages
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