Sarawak Malay
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Sarawak Malay (Standard Malay: Bahasa Melayu Sarawak or Bahasa Sarawak, Jawi: بهاس ملايو سراوق, Sarawak Malay: Kelakar Sarawak) is a Malayic language native to the State of Sarawak. It is a common language used by natives of Sarawak[1] and also as the important mother tongue for the Sarawakian Malay people.
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This article is about the language. For Ethnic Malays residing in Sarawak, see Sarawakian Malay people.
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Sarawak Malay | |
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Kelakar Sarawak | |
Native to | Sarawak |
Native speakers | (undated figure of 900,000–1,200,000[citation needed]) |
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ISO 639-3 | (covered by zlm) |
zlm-sar | |
Glottolog | sara1351 |
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This Malay variant is related to Bruneian Malay. The Sarawakian Malay language also bears strong similarities with the West Kalimantan Malay language around Sanggau, Sintang and Sekadau in the northern part of the West Kalimantan province of Indonesia.