Bakumpai is an
Austronesian
Austronesian may refer to:
*The Austronesian languages
*The historical Austronesian peoples
The Austronesian peoples, sometimes referred to as Austronesian-speaking peoples, are a large group of peoples in Taiwan, Maritime Southeast Asia, M ...
language belonging to the
West Barito languages. It is spoken by about 100,000
Bakumpai people (a subgroup of
Dayak people) living in the central
Kalimantan
Kalimantan () is the Indonesian portion of the island of Borneo. It constitutes 73% of the island's area. The non-Indonesian parts of Borneo are Brunei and East Malaysia. In Indonesia, "Kalimantan" refers to the whole island of Borneo.
In 2019, ...
,
Indonesia.
Neighbouring ethnic groups are
Banjar people
The Banjar or Banjarese ( bjn, Urang Banjar; ) are an indigenous ethnic group native to the Banjar regions (notably Banjarmasin, Banjarbaru, Banjar Regency, etc.) in the southeastern Kalimantan hemisphere of Indonesia. Nowadays, Banjarese di ...
, Ngaju people and
Ma'anyan people. Thus there is high lexical similarity with the neighbouring languages (75% with
Ngaju language, 45% with
Banjar language).
Vocabulary comparison between Bakumpai, Ngaju and Indonesian
References
West Barito languages
Languages of Indonesia
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