Palembang language

Palembang
Palembang Malay
باسو ڤليمباڠ
Baso Pelémbang
Native toIndonesia
RegionSouth Sumatra
EthnicityPalembang Malay
Native speakers
1.6 million (2000 census)[1]
Austronesian
DialectsPalembang Lama
Palembang Pasar
Pesisir
Language codes
ISO 639-3plm retired and subsumed into mui[2]
mui-plm
Glottologpale1264
Linguasphere33-AFA-dh
Book cover of The Spelling Guidelines for Palembang Language, issued by South Sumatra Linguistic Center in 2007

Palembang, also known as Palembang Malay (Baso Pelémbang), is a Malayic variety of the Musi dialect group primarily spoken in the city of Palembang and nearby lowlands, and also as a lingua franca throughout South Sumatra. Since parts of the region used to be under direct Javanese rule for quite a long time, Palembang is significantly influenced by Javanese, down to its core vocabularies.[3]

While the name Palembang in the broad sense can also refer to the Musi dialect group as a whole,[4] it is most commonly used as an endonym for the speech used in the city and its immediate rural vicinity.[5][6]

In 2008, all the ISO 639-3 codes for Musi dialects, including [plm] for Palembang, were retired and merged into [mui] Musi. The old codes ([plm], [lmt], [pen], [rws]) are no longer in active use, but still have the meaning assigned to them when they were established in the Standard.[2]

  1. ^ McDowell & Anderbeck (2020), p. 14.
  2. ^ a b "Change Request Documentation: 2007-182". SIL International.
  3. ^ Tadmor, Uri (16–17 June 2001). Language Contact and Historical Reconstruction: The Case of Palembang Malay. 5th International Symposium on Malay/Indonesian Linguistics. Leipzig.
  4. ^ Musi at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Closed access icon
  5. ^ Alsamadani, Mardheya; Taibah, Samar (2019). "Types and Functions of Reduplication in Palembang". Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. 12 (1): 113.
  6. ^ McDowell & Anderbeck 2020, p. 13–14.

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