Social:Jambi Malay

Short description: Language in Indonesia

Jambi Malay
Baso Jambi
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Jambi Province
Ethnicity	Jambian, Batin etc.
Native speakers	1 million (2000 census)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (disputed) Malayic Jambi Malay
Language codes
ISO 639-3	jax
Glottolog	jamb1236

Jambi Malay (Template:Lang-jax, Indonesian: Bahasa Jambi) is a Malayic language spoken in Jambi province, Indonesia. It is closely related to Palembang Malay in neighbouring South Sumatra, Riau Malay in Riau Province and the surrounding islands, and Bengkulu Malay in Bengkulu Province.

Phonology

There are 25 native phonemes in Jambi Malay. These native phonemes consist of 19 consonants and 6 vowels.

Consonants

	Bilabial	Alveolar	Palatal	Dorsal	Glottal
Nasal	m	n	ɲ	ŋ
Stop	p  b	t  d	t͡ɕ  d͡ʑ	k  ɡ	ʔ
Fricative		s		ʁ	h
Approximant	w	l	j
Trill		(r)

Notes

• /p/, /t/ and /h/ are unreleased and become [p̚], [t̚] and [h̚] and /k/ becomes a glottal stop [ʔ] in the syllable-final position.
• /k/ and /ɡ/ become palatal [c] and [ɟ] and /h/ become velar [x] when they appear before the phoneme /i/.
• /ʁ/ is pronounced as trill [r] at the end of a word.

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
High	i		u
Mid	e	ə	o
Low	a

References

• Yanti; Tadmor, Uri; Cole, Peter; Hermon, Gabriella. 2015. Critò Kitò: A collection of Jambi stories in the Seberang Dialect. Jakarta: Masyarakat Linguistik Indonesia [Indonesian Linguistic Society]. ISBN:978-602-17161-3-7 [Includes word list.]
• Żaneta Krulikowska, Nadra Nadra, & Muhammad Yusdi. (2020). Phonological Sketch of Malay Jambi Language of Sarolangun, Indonesia. Arbitrer, 7(2), 173–181. https://doi.org/10.25077/ar.7.2.173-181.2020

External links

• Traditional Jambi Malay