Malayic Dayak languages

Malayic Dayak (Dayak Kemelayuan) is a dialect chain of Malayic spoken in West Kalimantan (North Kayong, Ketapang, Kapuas Hulu, Melawi) and the western part of Central Kalimantan (Lamandau, Sukamara, West Kotawaringin, Seruyan, East Kotawaringin).

Malayic Dayak
Delang–Kayong–Banana’
Native to	Indonesia
Region	West Kalimantan, Central Kalimantan
Native speakers	(520,000 cited 1981)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Malayo-Sumbawan ? Malayic Malayic Dayak
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xdy
Glottolog	mala1480

Wurm and Hattori (1981) list these dialects as Delang (200,000 speakers), Kayong (100,000 speakers), Banana’ (100,000 speakers), Bamayo, Tapitn (300 speakers), Mentebah-Suruk (20,000 speakers), Semitau (10,000 speakers), Suhaid (10,000 speakers), and additionally Arut, Lamandau, Sukamara, Riam (Nibung Terjung), Belantikan (Sungkup), Tamuan, Tomun, Pangin, Sekakai, and Silat. These dialects should not be confused with the Ibanic branch or other Malayic languages spoken by Dayaks.

Languages

Some of the Malayic Dayak languages that have been successfully identified and classified include:

• Arut
• Bamayo
• Banana’
• Belantikan
• Delang
• Gerunggang^[2]
• Kayong/Ketapang (Malay)
• Lamandau
• Mentebah-Suruk
• Pangin
• Pesaguan Hulu^[2]
• Pesaguan Kiri^[2]
• Riam
• Sekakai
• Semitau
• Silat
• Suhaid
• Sukamara
• Kayong (Dayak)
• Tamuan-Tomun
• Tapitn
• Iban

See also

• List of Dayak groups of West Kalimantan