Native to Indonesia Native speakers (300,000 cited 1981) | Region Borneo | |
Language family Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian (MP)
Nuclear MP
Malayo-Sumbawan
Malayic
Malayan
Kutai Malay ISO 639-3 Either:
mqg – Kota Bangun
vkt – Tenggarong Glottolog kota1275 (Kota Bangun)
teng1267 (Tenggarong) | ||
Kutai Malay is a dialect continuum of the Malay language spoken by the Kutai people, who live along the Mahakam River in Borneo. They are the principal population in the West Kutai, Kutai Kartanegara, and East Kutai Regencies.
Little literature was produced in Kutai during the period of administration of the Kutai Kartanegara Sultanate with most writing being done in Malay in the Jawi script.
The three principal dialects, which have little mutual intelligibility, are Tenggarong, Kota Bangun, and Ancalong Estuary.
References
Kutai Malay Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA