Embaloh (Maloh) is an
Austronesian (
Dayak) language spoken in
West Kalimantan
West Kalimantan () is a province of Indonesia. It is one of five Indonesian provinces comprising Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo. Its capital and largest city is Pontianak. It is bordered by East Kalimantan and Central ...
, Indonesia.
Apart from
Taman, it is not close to other languages on Borneo, but rather belongs to the
South Sulawesi languages
The South Sulawesi languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian language family. They are primarily spoken in the Indonesian provinces of South Sulawesi and West Sulawesi, with a small outlying pocket in West Kalimantan ( Tamanic).
Subgroup ...
closest to
Buginese.
Many speakers of Embaloh also speak
Iban, leading to the adoption of some Iban loanwords into Embaloh.
The Kalis dialect (Kalis Maloh) may be a distinct language.
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Sample
Notes: Normalized orthography with ''ng'' and ''''' instead of ''ŋ'' and superscript ''ʔ'' (''ʔ'').
References
Bibliography
*K. Alexander Adelaar and Nikolaus Himmelmann, ''The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar.'' Routledge, 2005.
Languages of Indonesia
South Sulawesi languages
West Kalimantan
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