Rejang (language)

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Rejang

Spoken in

Sumatra ( Indonesia )
speaker 350,000 ( SIL , 2000)
Linguistic
classification
Language codes
ISO 639-3

rej

Rejang is a language spoken by the Rejang people in Sumatra around Bengkulu . It belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian languages ​​of the Austronesian languages , but is not closely related to other languages, most likely to the languages ​​of Borneo . The language was written in the Rejang script . There are five main dialects.

Individual evidence

  1. Rejang at Ethnologue (17th edition, 2013)