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The Jambi City dialect is regarded as the prestigious dialect of Jambi Malay due to Jambi City's historical and cultural significance as the seat of ancient Malay kingdoms and sultanates. [17] Interestingly, Jambi City itself has two urban areas separated by the Batang Hari River , where each area has its own sub-distincts dialect: Jambi Kota ...
The Batin are a sub-group of Malay people that inhabits the interior parts of Jambi province [1] There are approximately 72,000 Batin living in the interior of south-central Sumatra. They speak a dialect of the Jambi variant of Malay, [2] but the accent is similar to Minangkabau language. [3]
Mekong Delta Malay, a variety of the Malay language that has existed since the 14th century, thanks to trade between the Khmer Empire and Malay traders, especially from the Sultanate of Malacca. Used by a mixed Muslim community of Cham , Khmer , and Malay called " Chvea ", mainly in Southern Cambodia, also around the Mekong River basin in Vietnam.
The most widely spoken are Palembang Malay (3.2 million), Jambi Malay (1 million), Bengkulu Malay (1.6 million) and Banjarese (4 million) (although not considered to be a dialect of Malay by its speakers; its minor dialect is typically called Bukit Malay). Speakers of unintelligible Malay dialects speak standard Indonesian as a lingua franca.
Kerinci people (Kerinci: Uhang Kincai, Malay: Kerinci or Kerinchi, Minangkabau: Urang Karinci, Jawi: كرينچي) are an Austronesian ethnic group native to Jambi province specifically in the regencies of Kerinci, Merangin, Bungo and the city of Sungai Penuh. Besides Jambi, Kerinci communities can also be found in neighbouring West Sumatra.
[2] [3] Malay, in its various forms, is recognized as a national language in Brunei, Malaysia, and Singapore. [4] The Malayic branch also includes local languages spoken by ethnic Malays (e.g. Jambi Malay , Kedah Malay ), further several languages spoken by various other ethnic groups of Sumatra , Indonesia (e.g. Minangkabau ) and Borneo (e.g ...
The Kerinci language is one of the many varieties of the Malayic languages.Linguists believe that the Malay language—one of the varieties of the Malayic languages—originally derived from Proto-Malayic, which was spoken in the area stretching from West Kalimantan to the northern coast of Brunei around 1000 BCE.
The history of the Malay language can be divided into five periods: Old Malay, the Transitional Period, the Classical Malay, Late Modern Malay and Modern Malay. Old Malay is believed to be the actual ancestor of Classical Malay. [16] Old Malay was influenced by Sanskrit, the classical language of India. Sanskrit loan words can be found in Old ...