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Bengkulu or Bengkulu Malay 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
Native speakers	66,000 (ethnic population)[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

Phonology

This section does not cite any sources. (May 2019)

Bengkulu language using Latin alphabet and sometimes using Rejang script.

Consonants

	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

Letter F, SY, V and Z are used in loanwords of Indonesian.

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i i		u u
Middle	ɛ e/é	ə e	ɔ o
Open	a~ɑ a

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

References

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