South Barisan Malay

South Barisan Malay
Central Malay
Native toIndonesia
RegionBengkulu
South Sumatra
Lampung
Native speakers
1.6 million (2000)[1]
Austronesian
DialectsBenakat
Bengkulu
Besemah
Enim
Lematang Ulu
Lintang
Ogan
Rambang
Semende
Serawai
Language codes
ISO 639-3pse
Glottologhigh1292  (partial)
The distribution of Barisan lects across southern Sumatra.

South Barisan Malay, also called Central Malay or Middle Malay, is a collection of closely related Malayic isolects spoken in the southwestern part of Sumatra. None of them has more than one million speakers.

  1. ^ South Barisan Malay at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)