| South Barisan Malay | |
|---|---|
| Central Malay | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Bengkulu South Sumatra Lampung |
Native speakers | 1.6 million (2000)[1] |
Austronesian
| |
| Dialects | Benakat Bengkulu Besemah Enim Kikim Kisam Lematang Ulu Lintang Ogan Rambang Semendo Serawai |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | pse |
| Glottolog | cent2053 |
South Barisan Malay, also called Central Malay or Middle Malay, is a collection of related Malayic isolects spoken in the southwestern part of Sumatra. None of the Central Malay isolects has more than one million speakers.
Name
Traditionally, the term Middle Malay (a calque of Dutch Midden-Maleisch) is used when referring to this cluster. Later, to avoid misidentification with a temporal stage of Malay language (i.e. the transition between Old Malay and Modern Malay), the term Central Malay began to be used.[2] McDonnell (2016) uses the term South Barisan Malay instead, referring to the southern region of the Barisan Mountains where these isolects are spoken.[3]
Varieties
Ethnologue groups together 12 isolects as part of Central Malay.[4]
There has been little research on individual isolects within the cluster.
References
- ↑ South Barisan Malay at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ↑ Adelaar, K. Alexander (1992). Proto-Malayic: The Reconstruction of its Phonology and Parts of its Lexicon and Morphology. Pacific Linguistics, Series C, no. 119. Canberra: Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University. hdl:1885/145782.
- ↑ McDonnell, Bradley James (2016). Symmetrical Voice Constructions in Besemah: A Usage-based Approach (PhD thesis). University of California, Santa Barbara.
- ↑ Lewis, M. Paul; Gary F. Simons; Charles D. Fennig, eds. (2015). Ethnologue: Languages of the World (18th ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International.
