Bakumpai is an Austronesian language belonging to the

West Barito languages The West Barito languages are a group of half a dozen Dayak ( Austronesian) languages of Borneo, Indonesia. They are named after the Barito River The Barito River is the second longest river in Borneo after the Kapuas River with a total l ...

. It is spoken by about 100,000

Bakumpai people Bakumpai or Baraki are indigenous people of Borneo and are considered as a sub-ethnic group of the Dayak Ngaju people group with Islamic background. The Bakumpai people first occupy along the Barito riverbanks in South Kalimantan and Central Ka ...

(a 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 w ...

) 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 Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Gui ...

. 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 ...

, Ngaju people and Ma'anyan people. Thus there is high lexical similarity with the neighbouring languages (75% with

Ngaju language Ngaju (also Ngaju Dayak or Dayak Ngaju) is an Austronesian language spoken along the Kapuas, Kahayan, Katingan, and Mentaya Rivers in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southea ...

, 45% with

Banjar language The Banjar or Banjarese (; ) is an Austronesian language predominantly spoken by the Banjarese—an indigenous ethnic group native to Banjar regions— in the southeastern Kalimantan of Indonesia. The Banjarese language is the lingua fr ...

Vocabulary comparison between Bakumpai, Ngaju and Indonesian

References

West Barito languages Languages of Indonesia {{au-lang-stub