Lara language

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Rara
Spoken in: Indonesia 
Region: Borneo
Total speakers: 11,000
Language family: Austronesian
 Malayo-Polynesian
  Borneo-Philippines
   Land Dayak
    Rara
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: –
ISO 639-3: –
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Rara (also called Bakati, Land Dajak II: Berkati, Lara’, and Luru) is a language spoken by some 12,000 people in Borneo. Speakers are found in the Indonesian area of the island (Kalimantan) on the Upper Lundu and Sambas rivers, around Bengkayang east of Gunung Pendering, and to the north, in Pejampi and two other villages (incidentally, this is one of the most linguistically diverse places on the planet). It is also spoken in parts of Sarawak, the Malaysian portion of the island.

Most information about it has been gathered by various Christian missionary groups.

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