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Also 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
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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
native label
jaku Iban
Wikimedia language code
iba
Commons category
Iban language
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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.