Iban language
Austronesian language spoken in Brunei, Kalimantan, Sarawak / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Iban language (jaku Iban) is spoken by the Iban, one of the Dayak ethnic groups, who live in Brunei, the Indonesian province of West Kalimantan and in the Malaysian state of Sarawak. It belongs to the Malayic subgroup, a Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family.
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Iban | |
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Jaku Iban | |
Native to | Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia |
Region | Borneo |
Ethnicity | Iban |
Native speakers | 2,450,000 (2019)[1] 1,900,000 L2 speakers in Malaysia (2019)[1] |
Latin, Dunging | |
Official status | |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-2 | iba |
ISO 639-3 | iba |
Glottolog | iban1264 |
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Iban has reached a stage of becoming a koiné language in Sarawak due to contact with groups speaking other related Ibanic languages within the state.[3] It is ranked as Level 5 (i.e. "safe") in term of endangerment on Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale (EGIDS).[2]