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Eastern Indonesia Malay

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Eastern Indonesia Malay
Melayu Pasar, Melayu Lokal
Native toIndonesia, Papua New Guinea,[1] Timor Leste[2]
RegionEast Nusa Tenggara, South Sulawesi, North Sulawesi, Gorontalo, Maluku, North Maluku, Papua,[3] West Papua, Southwest Papua, Central Papua, South Papua, Highland Papua (Indonesia), Vanimo (Papua New Guinea), Kampung Alor (Timor Leste)
EthnicityMalays and various other ethnicities
Creole Malay
  • Eastern Indonesia Malay
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologeast2743[4]

The Eastern Indonesia Malay is a language family Malay-based creole spoken by various ethnic groups in the Eastern Indonesia Region. This language is used as lingua franca by residents in cities and ports in Eastern Indonesia. One example of East Indonesian Malay that is widely used is Ambonese Malay; This language is spoken in the southern Maluku Islands especially Ambon Island and around.[5]

Classification[edit]

According to the Glottolog (2022) and Ethnologue classifications, Eastern Indonesia Malay consists of several languages. According to the classification of glottologists, this language is divided into several types of dialects, which are divided as follows.

Notes[edit]

  1. Mainly spoken in Kampung Alor, Timor Leste; an area inhabited by Malay Muslims and Arab descendants.
  2. According to Glottologist classification, Makassar Malay is considered a branch of Malay Creole which is different from Eastern Indonesia Malay.
  3. Spoken in Vanimo, Papua New Guinea; an area directly adjacent to Jayapura, Indonesia.

References[edit]

  1. W, Seiler. "The Lost Malay Language of Papua New Guinea" (PDF). sealang.net. Retrieved 2023-03-22.
  2. Inyo Yos Fernandez (13 June 2013). "Beberapa Catatan Tentang Bahasa Melayu Dili: Studi Awal Mengenai Bahasa Melayu Di Timor Timur". Humaniora (in Bahasa Indonesia) (1). Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  3. Gau, Sukardi. "Menjejaki Bahasa Melayu Maluku di Papua: Kerangka Pengenalan". www.academia.edu (in Bahasa Indonesia). Retrieved 22 March 2023.
  4. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "East Indonesia Trade Malay". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. Search this book on
  5. Robert B. Allen; Rika Hayami-Allen. "Orientation in the Spice Islands" (PDF). University of Pittsburgh: 21.

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