Bangka Malay

Bangka Malay
bahase Bangka base Bangka
بهاس بڠك
Native to	Indonesia (Bangka-Belitung)
Region	Bangka
Ethnicity	Bangka Malay, Bangka Chinese, etc.
Native speakers	340,000 (2000 census)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (disputed) Malayic Bangka Malay
Dialects	Mentok Belinyuliat Sungailiat Pangkalpinang Toboali Bangka Cina
Writing system	Latin (Indonesian alphabet) Jawi (historical)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mfb
Glottolog	bang1365
ELP	Bangka
Areas where Bangka Malay is a majority
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Bangka or Bangka Malay (bahase Bangka or base Bangka, Belinyu dialect: baso Bangka, Jawi: بهاس بڠك), is a Malayic language spoken in Indonesia, specifically on the island of Bangka in the Bangka Belitung Islands of Sumatra. It is primarily spoken by the native Malay people of Bangka, as well as by immigrants from other parts of Indonesia and the Bangka Chinese, who use it as their second language in addition to their native Hakka. Bangka Malay is spoken exclusively on the island of Bangka, although it is related to Palembang Malay and Belitung Malay spoken on neighboring islands. There are five different dialects of Bangka Malay: the Pangkalpinang dialect, Mentok dialect, Belinyu dialect, Sungailiat dialect, and Toboali dialect. Each of these dialects has its own subdialects. Additionally, the Bangka Chinese community speaks their own dialect of Bangka Malay, which is influenced by Hakka. The differences between each of these dialects are mostly lies in their phonology and morphology, except for the Bangka Cina dialect, which also has slight differences in vocabulary.^[2]

In Bangka, Bangka Malay serves as the lingua franca among the island's diverse ethnic groups. It has been influenced by Palembang Malay, owing to Bangka's historical association with the Palembang Sultanate,^[3] as well as by Hakka, introduced by Chinese migrants, and standard Indonesian, the national language of Indonesia.^{[citation needed]} Bangka Malay exhibits notable phonological and lexical differences from standard Indonesian and other Malay dialects, while its morphological structures generally remain identical, facilitating mutual intelligibility. It incorporates distinctive vocabulary that distinguishes it from both standard Indonesian and other dialects.