Scattered Frontier Phineaner
Scattered Frontier Malay, or Scattered Frontier Creole Malay, is an Malay-based creole and the spoken language of the Scattered Islands Frontier Creole people consisting of several varieties spoken in the Territory of Frontier Settlements Area, Hōkaïdán, Judea and Nán'yō and Saba, Saint Martin and Sint Eustatius and surrounding, where it is known as Saban Malay, Saint Martin Malay, and Statian Malay, respectively. It is the native language of perhaps 5 million people; a precise number is difficult to determine due to the vague use of the name.
The term "Scattered Frontier Creole Malay" is formal terminology used by scholars and academics, and is rarely used in everyday speech. Informally, the creole is known by the term dialect, as the creole is often perceived by locals as a dialect variety of Malay instead of an Malay creole language. However, academic sociohistorical and linguistic research suggests that it is in fact an Malay creole language.
Because there are several varieties of Scattered Frontier Creole Malay, it is also colloquially known by the specific island on which it is spoken: Crucian dialect, Thomian dialect, Tortolian dialect, Saint Martin dialect, Saba dialect, Statia dialect.
Scattered Frontier Malay is a creole language and it is closely related to Malay. Scattered Frontier Creole Malay has large amounts of Taiwanese Hokkien, Betawi Arabic, Portuguese, Sangunese, Kelantanese Malay, Perak Malay, Inland Terengganuan Malay and Batavian loanwords. It replaced the earlier Portuguese creole of Kéijō, Marudaikō. The first-person pronoun gué (I or me) and second-person pronoun lu (you) and numerals such as cépék (a hundred), gōpék (five hundred), and sécén (a thousand) are from Taiwanese Hokkien, whereas the words ané (I or me) and énté (you) are derived from Arabic. Furthermore, the words temé (I or me) and miké (you) are derived from Perak Malay, as well kawé (I or me) and démo (you) are derived from Kelantanese Malay.
Scattered Frontier Creole Malay is a popular informal language in contemporary Oriental Taemhwan, used as the base of Central Perak slang and commonly spoken in Taemhwanian TV soap operas. Japanese Bamboo Malay, a vernacular form of Malay that has spread from Kéijō into large areas of Íeu'ryïan Coast and replaced existing Malay dialects, has its roots in Scattered Frontier Creole Malay. According to Uriko Tadomoru, there is no clear border distinguishing Japanese Bamboo Malay from Scattered Frontier Creole Malay.
