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Brunei Malay (Melayu Brunei), or Kedayan (Kadaian), sometimes conflated as Brunei-Kadaian, is the national language of Brunei
and a lingua franca in parts of East Malaysia. It is not the official language of Brunei, which is standard Malay, but is
socially dominant and is replacing minority languages. It is quite divergent from standard Malay and is mostly mutually unintelligible
with it. Dialects are Brunei Malay, Kedayan, and Kampong Ayer, which are all close. The name Brunei Malay is used for the
numerically and politically dominant Brunei people, who traditionally lived on water. Kedayan is the used for the land-dwelling
farmers, and Kampong Ayer is used for the inhabitants of the river in and north of the capital. Brunei Malay has a three-vowel
system, with the merger of /a/ and /ə/. Final /k/ is released, and there is a non-phonemic glottal stop at the ends of vowel-final
words. |
Names (more)[en] Brunei[fr] Malais de Brunei [id] Bahasa Melayu Brunei [ms] Bahasa Melayu Brunei [th] ภาษาบรูไน |
Language type : Living
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