Rejang

Southwest Sumatran language spoken by Rejang ethnic group

Class type of: Northwest Sumatra–Barrier Islands Q3056339

Facts

9 properties

Instance of: language, modern language^[3]
Country: Indonesia^[2]
Subclass of: Northwest Sumatra–Barrier Islands^[4]
Coordinate location: 🗺️ -3.333°, 102.433°
Ethnologue language status: 6a Vigorous^[13]
Indigenous to: Bengkulu, Sumatra, South Sumatra, Indonesia, Kepahiang^[8]^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]
Native label: Miling Hêjang^[7]
Number of speakers, writers, or signers: +350000^[6]
Writing system: Latin script^[5]

🏷️ Also known as

en Rejang en Rejang language id bahasa Rejang it lingua rejang ja レジャン語 ko 레장어 pl Język rejang ru Реджанг tr rej uk Реджангська мова vi Tiếng Rejang zh 勒姜语

🔖 Identifiers · 15

Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID: 300443721
Described at URL: lingweb.eva.mpg.de
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID: topic/Rejang-language
Ethnologue.com language code: rej
Exact match: publications.europa.eu
Freebase ID: /m/0g5lq1
Glottolog code: reja1240
IETF language tag: rej
ISO 639-3 code: rej
Lingua Libre ID: William Smith
Linguasphere code: 31-MFI-a
National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007560894705171

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Statistics Indonesia language code: 0066 4
Topic's main category: Category:Rejang script
WALS lect code: rej

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🔗 Connections

Indigenous to 5

Indonesia, Sumatra, Bengkulu, South Sumatra, Kepahiang

← Language used 3

Sumatra, Bengkulu, South Sumatra

Instance of 2

language, modern language

Country 1

Indonesia

Lingua Libre ID 1

William Smith

Subclass of 1

Northwest Sumatra–Barrier Islands

Topic's main category 1

Category:Rejang script

Writing system 1

Latin script

← Category combines topics 1

Category:Rejang lemmas

← Category's main topic 1

Category:Rejang script

← Language of work or name 1

Rejang script

← Languages spoken, written or signed 1

Rejang people

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Summary

Rejang is a language^[1].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

[2] ↑ Rejang — country (P17): Indonesia. scriptsource.org. Retrieved 2023-08-21. scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[3] ↑ Rejang — instance of (P31): modern language. iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ Rejang — subclass of (P279): Northwest Sumatra–Barrier Islands. wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ Rejang — writing system (P282): Latin script. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ Rejang — number of speakers, writers, or signers (P1098): 350,000. wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ Rejang — native label (P1705): Miling Hêjang. wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ Rejang — indigenous to (P2341): Bengkulu. wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ Rejang — indigenous to (P2341): Sumatra. wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ Rejang — indigenous to (P2341): South Sumatra. wikidata.org.
[11] ↑ Rejang — indigenous to (P2341): Indonesia. wikidata.org.
[12] ↑ Rejang — indigenous to (P2341): Kepahiang. wikidata.org.
[13] ↑ Rejang — Ethnologue language status (P3823): 6a Vigorous. Ethnologue. Retrieved 2019-05-09. ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

[1] ↑ Rejang is an instance of language (Q34770) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Coordinate location → {'lat': -3.3333333333333335, 'lon': 102.43333333333334}

Subclass of → Northwest Sumatra–Barrier Islands

Ethnologue language status → 6a Vigorous

Indigenous to → Bengkulu, Sumatra, South Sumatra +2

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