421 (Baba Malay)

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id: 421,
code_val: "mbf",
code_authorities: "ISO 639-3",
primary_name: "Baba Malay",
alternate_names: "Chinese Malay; Baba; Straits Malay; Bahasa Peranakan; Malay, Baba",
lang_description: "",
classification: "",
dialect_varieties: "Melacca; Penang; Singapore",
public_comment: "According to Lee (2014), it is still disputed whether Baba Malay is a creole because it lacks lots of things considered by many scholars necessary for a language to fit the definition of a creole language. Baba Malay may be a mixed language, a simplified trade language, or perhaps a real creole.",
private_comment: null,
source_id: 89800,
language: {
- code_id: 421,
- featured: 0,
- cached_documentation_score: -1,
- google_group_url: "",
- simplified_level: "high",
- coordinates: "1.75, 103.08",
- updated_at: "2018-03-25 01:00:10",
- speaker_attitude: "",
- government_support: "No",
- institutional_support: "No",
- _other_languages_used: "English, Malay, Mandarin Chinese, Hokkien",
- domains_of_use: "Used only in a few very specific domains, such as in ceremonies, songs, prayer, proverbs, or certain limited domestic activities.",
- speakers_worldwide: "2,000",
- second_language_speakers: null,
- semi_speakers: null,
- children: "0",
- young_adults: "0",
- older_adults: null,
- elders: "2,000",
- ethnic_population: null,
- speakers_worldwide_year: null,
- bibliography_of_vitality: "96340",
- bibliography_of_context: "96340",
- bibliography_of_locations: "90420",
- user_submission: "",
- approved: 1,
- speakers_int_cache: 2000,
- has_audio_samples: 0,
- has_document_samples: 0,
- has_image_samples: 0,
- has_guide_samples: 0,
- has_video_samples: 0,
- search_simplified_level: "CE",
- user_id: 1,
- code_val_cache: "mbf",
- has_link_samples: 0,
- submission_source_info: "",
- countries: [
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    - id: 139,
    - name: "Malaysia",
    },
  - {
    - id: 141,
    - name: "Singapore",
    },
  ],
},
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  - speaker_number: "10000-99999",
  - speaker_number_text: "<15,000",
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  - semi_speakers: null,
  - children: null,
  - young_adults: null,
  - older_adults: null,
  - elders: null,
  - ethnic_population: "~300000",
  - date_of_info: "Singapore (1986), Malaysia (unknown)",
  - public_comment: "There were 10000 speakers in Singapore from an ethnic population of 250000 to 400000 (Pakir 1986). Ethnologue postulates that there is an ethnic population of 5000 people in Malaysia.",
  - private_comment: null,
  - source_id: 1511,
  - preferred: 0,
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  - older_adults: null,
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  - older_adults: null,
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  - private_comment: null,
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}