| Land Dayak | |
|---|---|
| Bidayuh | |
| Ethnicity: | Bidayuh |
| Geographic distribution: |
Borneo |
| Linguistic classification: | Austronesian
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| Subdivisions: | |
| ISO 639-2 and 639-5: | day |
The Land Dayak languages are a putative group of dozen or so languages spoken by the Bidayuh Land Dayaks of Borneo.
The unity of Land Dayak as a group is dubious. A 2008 analysis of the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database[1] found that the Bekati’ and Jagoi languages (the two Land Dayak languages included in the analysis) were no more closely related to each other than they were to the Barito and North Sarawakan languages. Indeed, the calculated confidence that any of these languages formed a valid unit was only 56%. The accepted groups are:
(Benyadu' and Sanggau are left unclassified by Ethnologue.)