Embaloh language

Embaloh (Maloh) is an Austronesian (Dayak) language of Borneo. Apart from Taman, it is not close to other languages on Borneo, but rather belongs to the South Sulawesi languages.[2]

Embaloh
Native toIndonesia
RegionKalimantan
Native speakers
(10,000 cited 1991)[1]
Dialects
  • Kalis
Language codes
ISO 639-3emb
Glottologemba1238

The Kalis dialect (Kalis Maloh) may be a distinct language.[3]

References

  1. Embaloh at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Adelaar, K. A. (1994). "The classification of the Tamanic languages". In Tom Dutton; Darrell T. Tryon (eds.). Language contact and change in the Austronesian world. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 1–42.
  3. Embaloh language at Ethnologue (12th ed., 1992).

Bibliography

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