Musi languages

The Musi languages consists of a collection of closely related Malayic varieties spoken in the eastern and northern regions of South Sumatra, as well as parts of Bengkulu. The Musi languages has a relatively high degree of mutual intelligibility, despite its speakers not sharing a unified ethnic identity. Generally, speakers of Malayic varieties in this area refer to their variety (in Indonesian) as bahasa 'language' + [name of region/river/ethnic group], regardless of whether it is classified linguistically as an independent language or a dialect.