Iban
Sign in to saveAlso known as Iban language, Iban Coastal Dayak, Sea Dayak, Sea Dyak
Coastal Dayak language spoken by Iban people
Key facts
- Native to
- Brunei , Indonesia , Malaysia
- Region
- Borneo
- Ethnicity
- Iban
- Native speakers
- 2,450,000 (2019) , 1,900,000 L2 speakers in Malaysia (2019)
- Language family
- Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Malayic Ibanic Iban
- Writing system
- Latin , Dunging
- Regulated by
- Tun Jugah Foundation Ministry of Education Malaysia Dayak Cultural Foundation
- Iso 639 2
- iba
- Iso 639 3
- iba
- Glottolog
- iban1264
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- Ibanic
- Country
- Malaysia
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- writing system
- Dunging script
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 2300000
- linguistic typology
- agglutinative language
- indigenous to
- Kapuas Hulu
- topic's main category
- Category:Iban language
- P10369
- Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle
- native label
- jaku Iban
- Wikimedia Incubator URL
- incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/iba
- Wikimedia language code
- iba
- Commons category
- Iban language
Sources (7)
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Encyclopedic overview
An Iban speaker, recorded in Malaysia 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.
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. It is ranked as Level 5 (i.e. "safe") in term of endangerment on Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale (EGIDS). Since 2024, the Iban language is included in Google Translate under Malaysia domain.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Iban” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.