The Musi languages are a collection of closely related Malayic varieties of the Austronesian family, spoken by roughly four million people across eastern and northern South Sumatra and parts of Bengkulu, Indonesia. They divide into a Palembang-lowland cluster, including Palembang and Lematang Ilir, and an upper Musi cluster including Musi and Pegagan proper, and while the varieties show a relatively high degree of mutual intelligibility, their speakers do not share a single unified ethnic identity.
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RegionEastern and northern South Sumatra and parts of Bengkulu, Indonesia 1 Speaker Count Sources
1. Musi languages, Wikipedia
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spoken in the eastern and northern regions of South Sumatra, as well as parts of Bengkulu.
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| speakers = 4,008,000
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