The Malayic languages ( Indonesian : rumpun bahasa Melayik , Malay : bahasa-bahasa Melayu ) are a branch of the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of the Austronesian language family . The most prominent member is Malay , a pluricentric language given national status in Brunei and Singapore while also the basis for national standards Malaysian in Malaysia and Indonesian in Indonesia . The Malayic branch also includes local languages spoken by ethnic Malays (e.g. Jambi Malay , Kedah Malay ), further several languages spoken by various other ethnic groups of Sumatra , Indonesia (e.g. Minangkabau ) and Borneo (e.g. Banjarese , Iban ) even as far as Urak Lawoi in the southwestern coast of Thailand.
7-608: Bamayo (Bumayoh) is a Malayic Dayak language of Borneo. Bamayo dialects form a chain that may be better considered three separate languages. Wurm and Hattori (1981) list these dialects as Delang (200,000 speakers), Kayung (100,000 speakers), Banana’ (100,000 speakers), Tapitn (300 speakers), Mentebah-Suruk (20,000 speakers), Semitau (10,000 speakers), and Suhaid (10,000 speakers), and additionally Arut (Sukarame), Lamandau (Landau Kantu), Sukamara (Kerta Mulya), Riam (Nibung Terjung), Belantikan (Sungkup), Tamuan, Tomun, Pangin, Sekakai, and Silat. This article about Malayic languages
14-687: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Malayic languages The most probable candidate for the urheimat of the Malayic languages is western Borneo prior to spread in Sumatra. The term "Malayic" was first coined by Dyen (1965) in his lexicostatistical classification of the Austronesian languages. Dyen's "Malayic hesion" had a wider scope than the Malayic subgroup in its currently accepted form, and also included Acehnese , Lampung and Madurese . Nothofer (1988) narrowed down
21-665: The Glottolog (Version 3.4) . Following Tadmor (2002) , Anderbeck (2012) makes a distinction between Malay and Malayic in his discussion about the dialects of the Sea Tribes in Riau Archipelago . He tentatively classifies all Malayic languages as belonging to a "Malay" subgroup, except Ibanic, Kendayan/Selako, Keninjal , Malayic Dayak (or "Dayak Malayic") and the "fairly divergent varieties" of Urak Lawoi' and Duano . Anderbeck's classification has been adopted in
28-525: The South China Sea and the Strait of Malacca . While there is general consensus about which languages can be classified as Malayic, the internal subgrouping of the Malayic languages is still disputed. Adelaar (1993) classifies the Malayic languages as follows. Based on grammatical evidence, Ross (2004) divides the Malayic languages into two primary branches: This classification is mirrored in
35-524: The 17th edition of the Ethnologue , with the sole exception of Duano, which is listed in the Ethnologue among the "Malay" languages. In his dissertation on the languages of Borneo, Smith (2017) provides evidence for a subgroup comprising Malayic isolects in western Borneo and southern Sumatra, which he labels "West Bornean Malayic". However, he leaves other isolects unclassified. The inclusion of
42-623: The Malayic languages within the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup is undisputed, and there is general consensus that the Chamic languages are closely related to Malayic. The wider affiliations of the Malayic languages are however controversial. There are two major proposals: Adelaar (2005) places Malayic within the Malayo-Sumbawan subgroup, which comprises the following languages: Blust (2010) and Smith (2017) assign Malayic to
49-483: The range of Malayic, but included the non-Malayic languages Rejang and Embaloh : The present scope of the Malayic subgroup, which is now universally accepted by experts in the field, was first proposed by K.A. Adelaar ( 1992 , 1993 ), based on phonological, morphological and lexical evidence. Malayic languages are spoken on Borneo , Sumatra , the Malay Peninsula , Java and on several islands located in
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