Embaloh language

Embaloh
Embaloh
Native to	Indonesia
Region	West Kalimantan
Native speakers	(10,000 cited 1991)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian South Sulawesi Bugis–Tamanic Tamanic Embaloh; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Kalis;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	emb
Glottolog	emba1238

Embaloh (Maloh) is an Austronesian (Dayak) language of 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.^[3] Many speakers of Embaloh also speak Iban, leading to the adoption of some Iban loanwords into Embaloh.^[2]^: 114

The Kalis dialect (Kalis Maloh) may be a distinct language.^[4]

References[]

^ Embaloh at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ ^a ^b T. King, Victor (1976). "Some Apects of Iban-Maloh Contact in West Kalimantan". Indonesia: 85–114.
^ 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.
^ 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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[e18-1] Embaloh at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[King-2] T. King, Victor (1976). "Some Apects of Iban-Maloh Contact in West Kalimantan". Indonesia: 85–114.

[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.

[4] Embaloh language at Ethnologue (12th ed., 1992).

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