Semai

Facts

  • Language: Semai
  • Alternate names: Senoi, Sengoi, Sakai, Central Sakai, Central "Sakai", Zentral Sakai
  • Language code: sea
  • Language family: Austro-Asiatic, Mon-Khmer, Aslian, Senoic (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: <29,000
  • Vulnerability: Vulnerable
  • Script: Latin script.

More information:

    ‘Sakai’, slave. ‘Sengoi’, people, in Semai. West Semai more acculturated to Malay society than east Semai.

    Semai is spoken in Malaysia, Southeast Asia.