Rejang (language)
Rejang | ||
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Spoken in |
Sumatra ( Indonesia ) | |
speaker | 350,000 ( SIL , 2000) | |
Linguistic classification |
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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
- ↑ Rejang at Ethnologue (17th edition, 2013)