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A Grammar of Semelai
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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

4,103

Domains of Use

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Year of info

2004

Location and Context

Countries

Malaysia

Coordinates

3.099, 102.622

Location description

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

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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

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Other languages used

Malay

Domains of other languages

Malay is used in contact with outsiders

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Native Speakers Worldwide

<4,103

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Ethnic Population

4,103

Non-monolingual speakers

All

More about speakers

Apart from Semelai proper which has most of the remaining speakers, the Temoq dialect has a few hundred.

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Malaysia

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Location description

South central peninsular, southeast of Temerloh

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South central peninsular, southeast of Temerloh

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Malay

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Ethnic Population

6,418

Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

Data for the ethnic population is from COAC (2003).

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

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Malaysia;

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Year of info

2005

Location and Context

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Coordinates

3.0,103.0

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Native Speakers Worldwide

2,932

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