Jambi Malay

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

Jambi Malay (Jambi Malay: Baso Jambi, 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.

	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)

/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.

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

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