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Brunei Malay (Bahasa Melayu Brunei) or Kedayan (Kadaian) sometimes conflated as Brunei-Kadaian is the national language of Brunei and a lingua franca in parts of East Malaysia. It is not the official language of Brunei which is standard Malay but is socially dominant and is replacing minority languages. It is quite divergent from standard Malay and is mostly mutually unintelligible with it.Dialects are Brunei Malay Kedayan and Kampong Ayer which are all close.

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ISO 639-3 code
kxd
family
Malayo-Polynesian languages, Malayan languages, Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian languages, Malayic languages
spoken in
Brunei

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