East Barito languages

East Barito
Geographic
distribution:
south Borneo, Madagascar
Linguistic classification:

Austronesian

Glottolog: east2713[1]

The East Barito languages are a group of a dozen Dayak (Austronesian) languages of Borneo, and most famously Malagasy, the national language of Madagascar. They are named after the Barito River.

The languages are,

Several of the languages are named 'Dusun' because they are spoken by the Dusun people; they are not to be confused with the Dusunic languages, which are also spoken by the Dusun.

Footnotes

  1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "East Greater Barito". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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