Bakumpai is an Austronesian language belonging to the West Barito languages. 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 people, Dayak Ngaju people group with Islamic background. The Bakumpai people first occupy along the Barito River, Barito riverbanks in South ...

(a subgroup of

Dayak people The Dayak (; older spelling: Dajak) or Dyak or Dayuh are 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 with its ...

) living in the central

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. Neighbouring ethnic groups are

Banjar people The Banjar or Banjarese () are an Austronesian peoples, Austronesian ethnic group native to the Banjar Region, Banjar regions (notably Banjarmasin, Banjarbaru, Banjar Regency, etc.) in the South Kalimantan, southeastern Kalimantan regions of In ...

, Ngaju people, and

Ma'anyan people Ma'anyan (colonial spelling Maanjan or Meanjan), Dayak Maanyan or Eastern Barito Dayak people are an 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'an ...

. Thus there is high lexical similarity with the neighbouring languages (75% with Ngaju, 45% with Banjar). In addition, Berangas language who

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is also very similar to Bakumpai, possibly a dialect.

Vocabulary comparison

The following is a vocabulary comparison between the closely related Bakumpai and Ngaju languages, as well as Indonesian and its translation into English.

References

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