Concept information
Preferred term
ibaIban
Type
-
Language
Definition
- The Iban language (jaku Iban) is spoken by the Iban, a branch of the Dayak ethnic group formerly known as "Sea Dayak" who live in Sarawak, the Indonesian province of Kalimantan Barat and in Brunei. It belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family, and is related to Malay, more closely to Sarawakian Malay. The Iban language is also a subject tested in PMR and SPM, the Malaysian public examination for Form 3 and Form 5 students respectively. Students comment that questions from these exams mostly cover the classic Iban language, making them a daunting task for many who are more fluent in the contemporary tongue. The language is mostly taught to students in rural areas with a majority Iban population, including Baleh (Kapit), Betong, Saratok, Lubok Antu and Pelagus (Kapit).
Entry terms
- Iban language
ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code
- iba
ISO 639-2 Terminological code
- iba
ISO 639-3 code
- iba
Notation
- iba
In other languages
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Iban
French
-
iban
-
Iban
German
-
iban
Italian
-
Portuguese
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Língua iban
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iban
Spanish
URI
http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/iba
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