Social:Kaur language

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Short description: Language in Indonesia
Kaur
Ka’ur
Native toIndonesia
RegionSumatra
Native speakers
40,000 (2000)[1]
Austronesian
  • Malayo-Polynesian
    • Malayic
      • Kaur
Language codes
ISO 639-3vkk
Glottologkaur1269[2]

Kaur (Ka’ur) is a Malayic language spoken on the southeastern coast of the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. It is difficult for speakers of neighboring Central Malay (Bengkulu) to understand. Many speakers are animists.

References

  1. Kaur at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Kaur". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/kaur1269.