Negeri Sembilan was one of temporary and permanent residence abroad.
The migration went on in 14th century. The influence of this might be looked
at the sociocultural Negeri Sembilan today including at their dialect. In
this paper will be explained the comparison between the Minangkabau
language and Negeri Sembilan dialect. The purpose of this is to review the
relation of that isolect. To achieve them, the analyzing of data will apply the
lexicostatistics that is one of the methods in historical comparative of linguistics
