Kaur language
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Language in Indonesia
| Kaur | |
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| Ka’ur | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Sumatra (Bengkulu) |
Native speakers | 40,000 (2000)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | vkk |
| Glottolog | kaur1269 |
Kaur (Ka’ur) is a Malayic language spoken in Bengkulu province on the southeastern coast of the island of Sumatra in Indonesia.[2] It is difficult for speakers of neighboring Central Malay (Bengkulu) to understand. Many speakers are animists.
References
[edit]- ^ Kaur at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ McDowell, Jonathan; Anderbeck, Karl (2020). The Malay Lects of Southern Sumatra. JSEALS Special Publication. Vol. 7. University of Hawai'i Press. p. 25. hdl:10524/52473.
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| Northwest Sumatra– Barrier Islands |
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| Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian (over 700 languages) |
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