Ma'anyan or Ma'anjan or Maanyak Dayak is an Austronesian language belonging to the East Barito languages. It is spoken by about 150,000

Ma'anyan people Ma'anyan (colonial spelling Maanjan or Meanjan), Dayak Maanyan or Eastern Barito Dayak people are a sub-ethnic group of the Dayak people indigenous to Borneo. They are also considered as part of the east Barito Dusun group with the name Dusun Ma ...

(subgroup of

Dayak people The Dayak (; older spelling: Dajak) or Dyak or Dayuh are one of the native groups of Borneo. It is a loose term for over 200 riverine and hill-dwelling ethnic groups, located principally in the central and southern interior of Borneo, each ...

) living in the province of

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and South Kalimantan,

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. It is closely related to the

Malagasy language Malagasy (; ) is an Austronesian language and the national language of Madagascar. Malagasy is the westernmost Malayo-Polynesian language, brought to Madagascar by the settlement of Austronesian peoples from the Sunda islands around the 5th c ...

spoken in

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Phonology

Consonants

can also be heard as a tap sound .

Vowels

can be heard as in closed syllables.

Connection with Malagasy

The Malagasy language is an Austronesian language spoken in Madagascar. Malagasy is believed to have originated from the Southeast

Barito language The Barito languages are around twenty Austronesian languages of Indonesia (Borneo), Southern Philippines, plus Malagasy, the national language of Madagascar. They are named after the Barito River located in South Kalimantan, Indonesia. The ...

, and Ma'anyan is believed to be its closest relative, with numerous Malay and Javanese loanwords. It is known that

were brought as labourers and slaves by

Malay Malay may refer to: Languages * Malay language or Bahasa Melayu, a major Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore ** History of the Malay language, the Malay language from the 4th to the 14th century ** Indonesi ...

and Javanese people in their trading fleets, which reached Madagascar by ca. 50–500 AD. There is high lexical similarity with other East Barito languages like Paku (77%) and Dusun Witu (75%).

Vocabulary

Vocabulary comparison between Malay, Banjarese, Ma'anyan, and Malagasy.

References

External links

Ma'anyan language and grammar
(in Ma'anyan) East Barito languages Languages of Indonesia {{austronesian-lang-stub