Spoken L1 Language: Kupang Malay
- AES status:
- not endangered
- Source:
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David M. Eberhard and Gary F. Simons and Charles D. Fennig 2020
- Comment:
- Malay, Kupang (mkn-mkn) = 3 (Wider communication). Derived from Malay. Language of wider communication used in spice trade in the city of Kupang and surrounding region in the 1640s. Lingua franca for interethnic communication in the region or in mixed marriages.
Glottolog
[mkn] at ISO 639-3
[mkn] at OLAC
[mkn] at Odin
PHOIBLE
Wikidata