Bengkulu language

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.

Bengkulu Malay
Bahaso Bengkulu
Region	Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
Ethnicity	Ethnic population: 66,000^[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (disputed) Malayic South Barisan Malay Bengkulu Malay
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`bke` (retired); subsumed in `pse` (South Barisan Malay)
Linguist List	`pse-ben` Bengkulu, Bencoolen, Bengkulan
Glottolog	`beng1290`
Linguasphere	`33-AFA-du`

Phonology edit

Bengkulu is written in the Latin alphabet and sometimes in Rejang script.

	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Stops	p p - b b	t t - d d	tɕ c - dʑ j	k k - ɡ g	ʔ k (coda)
Nasals	m m	n n	ɲ ny, n (before c/j)	ŋ ng
Fricatives		s s	ɕ si		(h h) (coda)
Lateral		l l
Tap		ɾ r
Semi-vowel			j y	w w

The letters ⟨f⟩, ⟨sy⟩, ⟨v⟩ and ⟨z⟩ are used in loanwords from Indonesian.

Bengkulu diphthongs are ai, au, ia and ua (where "ia" and "ua" are used in loanwords).

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