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Gerai  

Definition

  • Gerai is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of Borneo. The Malayo-Polynesian languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages encompassing approximately 390 million speakers. All major Austronesian languages belong to the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup. Together with closely related Beginci, Gerai belongs to the Malayic Dayak sub-branch. Austronesian languages often possess phoneme inventories smaller than the world average. Two salient morphological characteristics are a system of affixation and reduplication to form new words.

Identifier

  • GEF

Notation

  • gef

URI

http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/GEF

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