| Bengkulu Malay | |
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| Bahaso Bengkulu | |
| Region | Bengkulu Province, Sumatra |
| Ethnicity | Ethnic population: 66,000[1] |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bke retired and subsumed into pse
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pse-ben Bengkulu, Bencoolen, Bengkulan | |
| Glottolog | beng1290 |
| Linguasphere | 33-AFA-du |
Bengkulu MalayorBengkulu 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 is written in the Latin alphabet and sometimes in Rejang script.
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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| Plosive | voiceless | p ⟨p⟩ | t ⟨t⟩ | tɕ ⟨c⟩ | k ⟨k⟩ | ʔ ⟨k⟩ (coda) |
| voiced | b ⟨b⟩ | d ⟨d⟩ | dʑ ⟨j⟩ | ɡ ⟨g⟩ | ||
| Nasal | m ⟨m⟩ | n ⟨n⟩ | ɲ ⟨ny⟩, ⟨n⟩ (before c/j) | ŋ ⟨ng⟩ | ||
| Fricative | s ⟨s⟩ | ɕ ⟨si⟩ | (h ⟨h⟩) (coda) | |||
| Lateral | l ⟨l⟩ | |||||
| Tap | ɾ ⟨r⟩ | |||||
| Semivowel | j ⟨y⟩ | w ⟨w⟩ | ||||
The letters ⟨f⟩, ⟨sy⟩, ⟨v⟩ and ⟨z⟩ are used in loanwords from Indonesian.
| Front | Central | Back | |
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| Close | i ⟨i⟩ | u ⟨u⟩ | |
| Middle | ɛ ⟨e/é⟩ | ə ⟨e⟩ | ɔ ⟨o⟩ |
| Open | a~ɑ ⟨a⟩ | ||
Bengkulu diphthongs are ⟨ai⟩, ⟨au⟩, ⟨ia⟩ and ⟨ua⟩ (where "ia" and "ua" are used in loanwords).
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