Kedah Malay

Kedah Malay
Kedah Malay
بهاس ملايو قدح; ภาษามลายูไทรบุรี
Pelet Utagha ; Bahasa Melayu Kedah, Bahasa Melayu Utara
Native to	Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar and Indonesia
Region	Kedah, Pulau Pinang, Perlis, northern Perak (Kerian, Manjung, Larut, Matang and Selama), Trang, Satun, Ranong, Tanintharyi, Langkat, Aceh
Ethnicity	Kedahan Malays; Thai Malays; Burmese Malays; Jaring Halus Malays
Native speakers	2.6 million (2004)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (disputed) Malayic Kedah Malay; ; ; ;
Dialects	Kedah Persisiran; Kedah Utara; Perlis-Langkawi; Penang; Northern Perak; Satun; Jaring Halus;
Writing system	Latin script, Arabic script, Thai script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	meo
Glottolog	keda1251
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A young man speaks Kedah Malay

Kedah Malay or Kedahan (Malay: bahasa Melayu Kedah; also known as Pelat Utara or Loghat Utara 'Northern Dialect') or as it is known in Thailand, Syburi Malay (Thai: ภาษามลายูไทรบุรี Phasa Malāyū Saiburī) is a Malayic language mainly spoken in the northwestern Malaysian states of Perlis, Kedah, Penang, and northern Perak and in the southern Thai provinces of Trang and Satun. The usage of Kedah Malay was historically prevalent in southwestern Thailand before being superseded by the Thai language. Enclaves of Kedah Malay can be found in Kawthaung District in Myanmar; Ranong and Krabi in upper southern Thailand; Jaring Halus, Langkat and Aceh in Sumatra, Indonesia and up north in Bangkok, central Thailand, where most of the Kedah Malay speakers are descendants of historical settlers from Kedah.^[2]

Kedah Malay can be divided into several dialects, namely Kedah Persisiran (Littoral Kedah; which is the de facto prestige dialect of Kedah Malay), Kedah Utara (Northern Kedah), Perlis-Langkawi, Penang and some others outside Malaysia.^[3] Speakers in Trang as well as Satun are heavily influenced by the Thai language. However in the district of Baling, they speak a different variant more closely related to Kelantan-Patani Malay than it is to Kedah Malay.^[4]

^ Kedah Malay at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Asmah Haji Omar 2017, p. 38.
^ See Malayan languages for a comparison between Kedah Persisiran and Penang dialects.
^ Mohd Noor Aswad 2019.

[e18-1] Kedah Malay at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[FOOTNOTEAsmah_Haji_Omar201738-2] Asmah Haji Omar 2017, p. 38.

[3] See Malayan languages for a comparison between Kedah Persisiran and Penang dialects.

[FOOTNOTEMohd_Noor_Aswad2019-4] Mohd Noor Aswad 2019.

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Kedah Malay
بهاس ملايو قدح ภาษามลายูไทรบุรี
Pelet Utagha Bahasa Melayu Kedah, Bahasa Melayu Utara
Native to	Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar and Indonesia
Region	Kedah, Pulau Pinang, Perlis, northern Perak (Kerian, Manjung, Larut, Matang and Selama), Trang, Satun, Ranong, Tanintharyi, Langkat, Aceh
Ethnicity	Kedahan Malays Thai Malays Burmese Malays Jaring Halus Malays
Native speakers	2.6 million (2004)^[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (disputed) Malayic Kedah Malay
Dialects	Kedah Persisiran Kedah Utara Perlis-Langkawi Penang Northern Perak Satun Jaring Halus
Writing system	Latin script, Arabic script, Thai script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`meo`
Glottolog	`keda1251`
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