Palembang language
| Palembang | |
|---|---|
| Palembang Malay | |
| باسو ڤليمباڠ Baso Pelémbang | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | South Sumatra |
| Ethnicity | Palembang Malay |
Native speakers | (1.6 million cited 2000 census) |
| Dialects | Palembang Lama Palembang Pasar Pesisir |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | plm (deprecated for mui in 2008) |
mui-plm | |
| Glottolog | pale1264 |
| Linguasphere | 33-AFA-dh |
The distribution of Musi lects across southern Sumatra | |
Palembang, also known as Palembang Malay (Baso Pelémbang), is a Malayic variety of the Musi dialect chain primarily spoken in the city of Palembang and nearby lowlands, and also as a lingua franca throughout South Sumatra. Since parts of the region used to be under direct Javanese rule for quite a long time, Palembang is significantly influenced by Javanese, down to its core vocabularies.
While the name Palembang in the broad sense can also refer to the Musi dialect group as a whole, it is most commonly used as an endonym for the speech used in the city and its immediate rural vicinity.
In 2008, all the ISO 639-3 codes for Musi dialects, including [plm] for Palembang, were retired and merged into [mui] Musi. The old codes ([plm], [lmt], [pen], [rws]) are no longer in active use, but still have the meaning assigned to them when they were established in the Standard.