Rejang language

Infobox Language
name=Rejang
region=Southwestern Sumatra, Indonesia.
speakers=Up to 1 million.
familycolor=Austronesian
fam2=Malayo-Polynesian
iso2=map
iso3=rej

Rejang is spoken by the Rejang people in southwestern Sumatra, Indonesia. It is a Malayo-Polynesian language but has not been further classified. It has five major dialects. The language is quite different from the similarly named language group Rejang-Baram which is spoken on the island of Borneo in Sarawak and Kalimantan.

It is estimated that there are up to a million Rejang speakers. [Wurm, Stephen A. and Hattori, Shirô (eds.) (1981) "Language Atlas of the Pacific Area" Australian Academy of the Humanities in collaboration with the Japan Academy, Canberra, ISBN 0-85883-239-9]

Notes

References

* McGinn, Richard (1999) "The Position of Rejang In Relation to Malay and the 'Ablaut' Languages of Northwest Borneo" in Zeitoun, Elizabeth and Paul Jen-kuei Li, eds., "Selected Papers from the Eighth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics" Symposium Series of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Number 1, Taipei, Taiwan, ISBN 957-671-632-2;
* |Blust, Robert A. (1981) "The reconstruction of Proto-Malayo-Javanic: an appreciation" "Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde" 137(4): pp. 456-469;

External links

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=rej "Rejang" Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version] ;
* [http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/%7Emcginn/rejanglang.htm "Archive of Materials for the Study of the Rejang Language of Sumatra" ] ;