Jambi Malay

Jambi language
Baso Jambi
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Jambi Province
Ethnicity	Jambian, Batin etc.
Native speakers	1 million (2000 census)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (disputed) Malayic Jambi language
Language codes
ISO 639-3	jax
Glottolog	jamb1236

Jambi (Jambi Malay: Baso Jambi, Indonesian: Bahasa Jambi ) is a Malayic language spoken in Jambi province, Indonesia. It is closely related to Palembang Malay in neighbouring South Sumatra, Riau Malay in Riau Province and the surrounding islands, and Bengkulu Malay in Bengkulu Province.

Phonology

There are 25 native phonemes in Jambi Malay. These native phonemes consist of 19 consonants and 6 vowels.

Consonants

	Bilabial	Labio-velar	Alveolar	Alveolo-palatal	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Nasal	m		n		ɲ	ŋ
Stop	p  b		t  d			k  ɡ		ʔ
Affricate				t͡ɕ  d͡ʑ
Fricative			s				ʁ	h
Approximant		w			j
Trill			(r)
Lateral approximant			l

Notes

• /p/, /t/ and /h/ are unreleased and become [p̚], [t̚] and [h̚] and /k/ becomes a glottal stop [ʔ] in the syllable-final position.
• /k/ and /ɡ/ become palatal [c] and [ɟ] and /h/ beocomes velar [x] when they appear before the phoneme /i/.
• /ʁ/ is pronounced as trill [r] at the end of a word.

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
High	i		u
Close-mid	e		o
Mid		ə
Low	a

References

• Yanti; Tadmor, Uri; Cole, Peter; Hermon, Gabriella. 2015. Critò Kitò: A collection of Jambi stories in the Seberang Dialect. Jakarta: Masyarakat Linguistik Indonesia [Indonesian Linguistic Society]. ISBN 978-602-17161-3-7 [Includes word list.]
• Żaneta Krulikowska, Nadra Nadra, & Muhammad Yusdi. (2020). Phonological Sketch of Malay Jambi Language of Sarolangun, Indonesia. Arbitrer, 7(2), 173–181. https://doi.org/10.25077/ar.7.2.173-181.2020

External links

• Traditional Jambi Malay