Austronesian · ISO 639-3 rej
Rejang Language ꤷꤼꥋ ꤺꤲ꥓
Rejang is an Austronesian language spoken by about 1.2 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin and Rejang scripts.
Where Rejang is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Rejang
Language family
- Austronesian
- Malayo-Polynesian
- Rejang
Writing system
Latin and Rejang scripts
Related languages
About the Rejang language
Rejang (ꤷꤼꥋ ꤺꤲ꥓) is spoken by about 1.2 million people, which makes it the 428th most spoken language in the world — just behind Salasaca Highland Quichua (1.2 million) and ahead of Cebaara Senoufo (1.2 million). It belongs to the Austronesian language family.
Where is Rejang spoken?
Rejang is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Indonesia (1.3 million).
Rejang is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Rejang is written in the Latin and Rejang scripts. 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, Javanese, Caribbean Javanese, Malay, Filipino, Sundanese and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 rej.
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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.