Iban

Also known as Iban language, Iban Coastal Dayak, Sea Dayak, Sea Dyak

Coastal Dayak language spoken by Iban people

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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

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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.