The Malay Lects of Southern Sumatra

Abstract

This book provides an overview of the dialectal diversity of Malay spoken throughout the island of Sumatra. The contents gathered in the first decades of the 2000s include a combination of phonological, lexical, morphological and sociolinguistic data with a synchronic focus but with diachronic points of reference. It supported with maps and comparative tables of linguistic isoglosses and features.