Concept information
Preferred term
Kembayan
Definition
- Kembayan 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 Ribun (rir), Jangkang (djo), Semandang (sdq) and Sanggau (scg) languages, Kembayan belongs to the Southern Land 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
- XEM
Notation
- xem
URI
http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/XEM
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