Social:Kaur language

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

Kaur (Ka’ur) is a Malayic language spoken in Bengkulu province on the southeastern coast of the island of Sumatra in Indonesia.[3] 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. 
  3. McDowell, Jonathan; Anderbeck, Karl (2020). The Malay Lects of Southern Sumatra. JSEALS Special Publication. 7. University of Hawai'i Press. p. 25. 

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