Bengkulu Malay | |
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Bahaso Bengkulu | |
Region | Bengkulu Province, Sumatra |
Native speakers | 66,000[1] |
Austronesian
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | bke retired and subsumed into pse
[2] |
pse-ben Bengkulu, Bencoolen, Bengkulan | |
Glottolog | beng1290 |
Linguasphere | 33-AFA-du |
![]() Areas where Bengkulu Malay is a majority
Areas where Bengkulu Malay is a significant minority | |
Bengkulu Malay or Bengkulu is a Malayic language spoken on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, around the city of Bengkulu, in the rest of the Indonesian province of Bengkulu and in the Pesisir Barat Regency ("west coast") of Lampung Province. It is more closely related to other Malay variants in Sumatra such as Col, Jambi Malay and Palembang Malay as well Minangkabau spoken in neighbouring West Sumatra than to the Rejang language, which is also spoken in the province.