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Iban | |
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Jaku Iban | |
Native to | Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia |
Region | Borneo |
Ethnicity | Iban |
Native speakers | 2,450,000 (2019)[1] 1,900,000 L2 speakers in Malaysia (2019)[1] |
Latin, Dunging | |
Official status | |
Regulated by | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-2 | iba |
ISO 639-3 | iba |
Glottolog | iban1264 |
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.[3] It is ranked as Level 5 (i.e. "safe") in term of endangerment on Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale (EGIDS).[2] In 2024, the Iban language was included in Google Translate and became a historic moment as the first Borneo language to be registered into Google Translate and as the first Malaysian language to be registered into it other than Malay.[4]
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