Rejang is spoken by the Rejang people in southwestern Sumatra, Indonesia. It is a Malayo-Polynesian language but has not been further classified. It has five major dialects. The language is quite different from the similarly named language group Rejang-Baram which is spoken on the island of Borneo in Sarawak and Kalimantan.

It is estimated that there are up to a million Rejang speakers.

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References

• McGinn, Richard (1999) "The Position of Rejang In Relation to Malay and the 'Ablaut' Languages of Northwest Borneo" in Zeitoun, Elizabeth and Paul Jen-kuei Li, eds., Selected Papers from the Eighth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics Symposium Series of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Number 1, Taipei, Taiwan, ISBN 957-671-632-2;
• Blust, Robert A. (1981) "The reconstruction of Proto-Malayo-Javanic: an appreciation" Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 137(4): pp. 456-469;

External links

• Rejang Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version;
• "Archive of Materials for the Study of the Rejang Language of Sumatra" ;