About: Negeri Sembilan Malay

Negeri Sembilan Malay (Malay: bahasa Melayu Negeri Sembilan; also known as Baso Nogoghi or Baso Nismilan) is an Austronesian language spoken mainly in the Malaysian state of Negeri Sembilan and in northern Malacca in Alor Gajah. The language is spoken by the descendants of Minangkabau settlers from Sumatra, who have migrated to Negeri Sembilan since as early as the 14th century. It is often considered a variant or dialect of the Minangkabau language; lexical and phonological studies, however, indicate that it is more closely related to Standard Malay than it is to Minangkabau.