Cocos Malay

Cocos Islands Malay
Basa Pulu Cocos
Native to Australia, Malaysia
Region Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Sabah
Ethnicity 4,000 in Malaysia (2000)[1]
Native speakers
 (1,100 in Australia cited 1987)[1]
Creole
Language codes
ISO 639-3 coa
Glottolog coco1260[2]

Cocos Malay is a post-creolized variety of Malay, spoken by the Cocos Malays of Home Island, Christmas Island, and those originally from the Cocos Islands currently living in Sabah.[1]

Cocos Malay derives from the Malay trade languages of the 19th century, specifically the Betawi language,[3] with a strong additional Javanese influence. Malay is offered as a second language in schools, and Malaysian has prestige status; both are influencing the language, bringing it more in line with standard Malay.[4]

It has the following characteristics:

References

  1. 1 2 3 Cocos Islands Malay at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Cocos Islands Malay". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Wurm, Mühlhäusler, & Tryon, Atlas of languages of intercultural communication in the Pacific, Asia and the Americas, 1996:686
  4. ↑ Ansaldo, 2006. "Cocos (Keeling) Islands: Language Situation". In Keith Brown, ed. (2005). Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2 ed.). Elsevier. ISBN 0-08-044299-4.
  5. ↑ Alexander Adelaar, 1996. "Malay in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands 1996".


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