Semelai
[aka Bera, Semelai Bera, Serting]Classification: Austro-Asiatic
·vulnerable
Classification: Austro-Asiatic
·vulnerable
Bera, Semelai Bera, Serting |
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Austro-Asiatic, Aslian, South Aslian |
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Information from: “A Grammar of Semelai” . Nicole D. Kruspe (2004) Cambridge University Press
Unlike most other Aslian language, Semelai is relatively healthy and has not changed much in recent times. Children generally speak the language and are monolingual until schooling in Malay begins. It is inevitable that the use of Semelai will decline as the Semelai take part in wider Malaysian society. Nearby ethnic groups show much greater level of attrition.
Malay
Around the shores of Tasek Bera (lake Bera), along the banks of the Bera, Teriang and Serting rivers in south-west Pahang and north-west Negri Sembilan states, and the Muar River in north-west Johore
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
6,418
Data for the ethnic population is from COAC (2003).
Information from: “East and Southeast Asia” (349-424) . David Bradley (2007) , C. Moseley · London & New York: Routledge
4,103
Apart from Semelai proper which has most of the remaining speakers, the Temoq dialect has a few hundred.
Malay
South central peninsular, southeast of Temerloh
No longer spoken in some southern and southwestern areas of former traditional territory.
Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press