Bengkulu Malay

Bengkulu Malay or Bengkulu is a Malayic language spoken on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, around the city of Bengkulu, in the rest of the Indonesian province of Bengkulu and in the Pesisir Barat Regency of province of Lampung.

It is more closely related to other Malay variants in Sumatra such as Col, Jambi Malay, and Palembang Malay, as well Minangkabau spoken in neighbouring West Sumatra than to the Rejang language, which is also spoken in the province.

Bengkulu is written in the Latin, Jawi, and sometimes in Rejang scirpts.

The letters ⟨f⟩, ⟨sy⟩, ⟨v⟩ and ⟨z⟩ are used in loanwords from Indonesian.

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