Iban language

Iban
Jaku Iban
Native toBrunei, Indonesia, Malaysia
RegionBorneo
EthnicityIban
Native speakers
2,450,000 (2019)[1]
1,900,000 L2 speakers in Malaysia (2019)[1]
Latin, Dunging
Official status
Regulated by
  • Tun Jugah Foundation[2]
  • Ministry of Education Malaysia[3]
  • Dayak Cultural Foundation[3]
Language codes
ISO 639-2iba
ISO 639-3iba
Glottologiban1264
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.[3] It is ranked as Level 5 (i.e. "safe") in term of endangerment on Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale (EGIDS).[2]

  1. ^ a b Iban at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Su Hie 2021 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ a b c Shin, Chong (2021-05-07). "Iban as a koine language in Sarawak". Wacana. 22 (1): 102. doi:10.17510/wacana.v22i1.985. ISSN 2407-6899.

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