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Bakumpai language

Austronesian language spoken in Kalimantan, Indonesia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Bakumpai is an Austronesian language belonging to the West Barito languages. It is spoken by about 100,000 Bakumpai people (a subgroup of Dayak people) living in the central Kalimantan, Indonesia.

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Neighbouring ethnic groups are Banjar people, Ngaju people, and Ma'anyan people. Thus there is high lexical similarity with the neighbouring languages (75% with Ngaju, 45% with Banjar). In addition, Berangas language who endangered is also very similar to Bakumpai, possibly a dialect.[2]

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Vocabulary comparison

The following is a vocabulary comparison between the closely related Bakumpai and Ngaju languages, as well as Indonesian and its translation into English.

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