Embaloh_language

Embaloh language

Embaloh language

Austronesian language spoken in Kalimantan, Indonesia

Embaloh (Maloh) is an Austronesian (Dayak) language spoken in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.[2]: 86  Apart from Taman, it is not close to other languages on Borneo, but rather belongs to the South Sulawesi languages closest to Buginese.[3] Many speakers of Embaloh also speak Iban, leading to the adoption of some Iban loanwords into Embaloh.[2]: 114 

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The Kalis dialect (Kalis Maloh) may be a distinct language.[1]

Sample

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

"Aisi antuun indi' mantoan ulu'ulu'. Bopu' poang kule'a dakatoaniak ulu'ulu'," kaingka lalo i Lang Kibo. "Ona'kin, ti'kin matoan bapi!"
"These ghosts never stop asking. I'm getting fed up with their questions to me", said Lang Kibo. "Just watch it, if you started to ask again!"

— [3]

References

  1. [1]
    Embaloh at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. [2]
    T. King, Victor (1976). "Some Apects of Iban-Maloh Contact in West Kalimantan". Indonesia: 85–114.
  3. [3]
    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.

Bibliography

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


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