Austronesian · ISO 639-3 mui
Musi Language Baso Palembang
Musi is an Austronesian language spoken by about 3.1 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Musi is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Musi
Language family
- Austronesian
- Malayo-Polynesian
- Malayo-Chamic
- Malayic
- Nuclear Malayic
- Central Sumatran Malay
- Music
- Musi
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Musi language
Musi (Baso Palembang) is spoken by about 3.1 million people, which makes it the 242nd most spoken language in the world — just behind Kenyi (3.1 million) and ahead of Southern Kurdish (3.1 million). It belongs to the Austronesian language family and, more precisely, to the Music group within the Malayo-Chamic branch.
Where is Musi spoken?
Musi is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Indonesia (3.1 million).
Musi is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Musi is written in the Latin script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Indonesian, Minangkabau, Betawi, Bukit Malay, Banjar, Pattani Malay and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 mui.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.