Embaloh language explained

Embaloh
Region:	West Kalimantan
States:	Indonesia
Speakers:	10,000
Date:	1991
Ref:	e25
Familycolor:	Austronesian
Fam2:	Malayo-Polynesian
Fam3:	South Sulawesi
Fam4:	Bugis–Tamanic
Fam5:	Tamanic
Dia1:	Kalis
Iso3:	emb
Glotto:	emba1238
Glottorefname:	Embaloh

Embaloh (Maloh) is an Austronesian (Dayak) language spoken in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.^[1] Apart from Taman, it is not close to other languages on Borneo, but rather belongs to the South Sulawesi languages closest to Buginese.^[2] Many speakers of Embaloh also speak Iban, leading to the adoption of some Iban loanwords into Embaloh.^[1]

The Kalis dialect (Kalis Maloh) may be a distinct language.

Sample

Notes: Normalized orthography with ng and ' instead of ŋ and superscript ʔ.

Bibliography

• K. Alexander Adelaar and Nikolaus Himmelmann, The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar. Routledge, 2005.

Notes and References

1. T. King . Victor . 1976 . Some Apects of Iban-Maloh Contact in West Kalimantan . 85–114 . Indonesia.
2. Book: Adelaar, K. A. . 1994 . The classification of the Tamanic languages . Tom Dutton . Darrell T. Tryon . Language contact and change in the Austronesian world . 1–42 . Berlin . Mouton de Gruyter.