It has two separate but mutually intelligible dialect chains: Sari-sari and Jegho.[2] It has become a lingua franca throughout major population centers in the province, and is often used polyglossically with Indonesian and other regional languages and dialects in the area.[6]
Palembang language is a form of mixed language between the Malay and Javanese. Since parts of South Sumatra used to be under direct Javanese rule for quite a long time, the speech varieties of Palembang and its surrounding area are influenced by the Javanese down to their core vocabularies.[7]
↑"Pedoman Ejaan Bahasa Palembang". Badan Pengembangan Bahasa dan Perbukuan, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan (in Indonesian). Archived from the original on 2021-07-01. Retrieved 2022-07-03.
↑ 4.04.1Trisman, Bambang; Amalia, Dora; Susilawati, Dyah (2007). Twilovita, Nursis (ed.). Pedoman Ejaan Bahasa Palembang [Palembang Spelling System Guidelines] (in Indonesian). Palembang: Balai Bahasa Palembang, Provinsi Sumatera Selatan, Pusat Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan Nasional. OCLC697282757.
↑Tadmor, Uri (16–17 June 2001). Language Contact and Historical Reconstruction: The Case of Palembangese. 5th International Symposium on Linguistics of Indonesia. Leipzig.