| Bengkulu Malay | |
| Nativename: | Bahaso Bengkulu |
| Region: | Bengkulu Province, Sumatra |
| Speakers: | 66,000[1] |
| Familycolor: | Austronesian |
| Fam2: | Malayo-Polynesian |
| Fam3: | (disputed) |
| Fam4: | Malayic |
| Fam5: | South Barisan Malay |
| Isoexception: | dialect |
| Iso3: | bke |
| Iso3comment: | retired and subsumed into [2] |
| Glotto: | beng1290 |
| Glottorefname: | Bengkulu |
| Linglist: | pse-ben |
| Lingname: | Bengkulu, Bencoolen, Bengkulan |
| Lingua: | 33-AFA-du |
| Map: | Bengkulu Malay.svg |
| Notice: | IPA |
Bengkulu Malay or Bengkulu is a Malayic language spoken on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, around the city of Bengkulu, in the rest of the Indonesian province of Bengkulu and in the Pesisir Barat Regency ("west coast") of Lampung Province. It is more closely related to other Malay variants in Sumatra such as Col, Jambi Malay and Palembang Malay as well Minangkabau spoken in neighbouring West Sumatra than to the Rejang language, which is also spoken in the province.
Bengkulu is written in the Latin alphabet and sometimes in Rejang script.
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ (coda) | ||
| pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| Nasal | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/, (before c/j) | pronounced as /ink/ | |||
| Fricative | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | (pronounced as /ink/) (coda) | ||||
| Lateral | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||
| Tap | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||
| Semivowel | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
The letters,, and are used in loanwords from Indonesian.
| Front | Central | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||
| Middle | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |
| Open | pronounced as /ink/~pronounced as /ink/ | |||
Bengkulu diphthongs are,, and (where "ia" and "ua" are used in loanwords).