Embaloh (Maloh) is an
Austronesian (
Dayak) language of spoken in
West Kalimantan
West Kalimantan ( id, Kalimantan Barat) is a province of Indonesia. It is one of five Indonesian provinces comprising Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo. Its capital city is Pontianak. The province has an area of 147,307&nbs ...
, Indonesia.
Apart from
Taman, it is not close to other languages on Borneo, but rather belongs to the
South Sulawesi languages
The South Sulawesi languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian language family. They are primarily spoken in the Indonesian provinces of South Sulawesi and West Sulawesi, with a small outlying pocket in West Kalimantan.
Subgrouping
Internal ...
closest to
Buginese.
Many speakers of Embaloh also speak
Iban
IBAN or Iban or Ibán may refer to:
Banking
* International Bank Account Number
Ethnology
* Iban culture
The Ibans or Sea Dayaks are a branch of the Dayak people, Dayak people on the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. It is believed that the ...
, leading to the adoption of some Iban loanwords into Embaloh.
The Kalis dialect (Kalis Maloh) may be a distinct language.
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References
Bibliography
*K. Alexander Adelaar and Nikolaus Himmelmann, ''The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar.'' Routledge, 2005.
Languages of Indonesia
South Sulawesi languages
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