Temuan language

Temuan
Bahasak Temuan
Native toMalaysia
Regioncentral and southern Peninsular Malaysia
EthnicityTemuan
Native speakers
23,000 (2008)[1]
DialectsBelandas
Mantra
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3tmw
Glottologtemu1239
ELPTemuan

Temuan language (Temuan: Benua, Bual Uwang Hutarn, bual Mutan, Niap, Bahasak Temuan, Malay: Bahasa Temuan) is a Malayic language (part of the Austronesian language family) spoken by the Temuan people, one of the Orang Asli or indigenous peoples of Peninsular Malaysia which can be found in the states of Selangor, Pahang, Johor, Malacca and Negeri Sembilan. Temuan is a separate language but has a degree of mutual intelligibility with the Malay language. It is written in a Latin alphabet, but no standard orthography has been made.

  1. ^ Temuan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

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