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Languages in Kelantan
Languages in Kelantan
The Kelantanese dialect of Malay is famously incomprehensible to outsiders, so much so that Kelantanese and non-Kelantanese alike jokingly refer to it as German (pronounced gher-man with a hard G, but yes, it means German).
The Orang Siam also speak a dialect of Thai called Tak Bai, but this is also quite different from standard Thai or even the forms generally spoken in southern Thailand.
As for second languages, some people speak English, but do not expect everyone to be able to. And while no-one will expect you to speak Bahasa Kelantan (Kelantan dialect), some knowledge of standard Malay would be very useful.
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