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  2. Iban people - Wikipedia

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    The Iban language (jaku Iban) is spoken by the Iban, a branch of the Dayak ethnic group formerly known as "Sea Dayak". The language belongs to Malayic languages, which is a Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family. It is thought that the homeland of the Malayic languages is in western Borneo, where

  3. Ibanic languages - Wikipedia

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    The Ibanic languages are a branch of the Malayic languages indigenous to western Borneo.They are spoken by the Ibans and related groups in East Malaysia and the Indonesian province of West Kalimantan.

  4. Iban language - Wikipedia

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    The Iban language, known under the name of "Asian language", was offered as an examination subject in the Sarawak Junior Certificate. The "Asian language" was renamed to "Iban language" in 1963. Borneo Literature Bureau (BLB) was founded by the British in 1958 to

  5. Iban culture - Wikipedia

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    The Iban's staple food is rice from paddy planted on hill or swamp with hill rice having better taste and more valuable. A second staple food used to be "mulong" (sago powder) and the third one is tapioca. The Iban's famous cuisine is called "lulun" or "pansoh" which is wild meat, fish or vegetable cooked in wild bamboo containers over fire.

  6. Remun language - Wikipedia

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    The language is spoken by roughly 3600 inhabitants of the Sarawak region. Remun is the primary Iban-Remun language dialect in the Borneo area, and particularly the Sarawak region. [ 2 ] Despite being 88% similar to the Iban language , individuals in locales that speak Remun state the language is easily hidden from outsiders' understanding, even ...

  7. Keluri - Wikipedia

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    The keluri or keledi or enkulurai (Iban language) is a free reed gourd mouth organ from Sarawak, East Malaysia and Kalimantan made of bamboo and gourd. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Historically the keledi or keluri was played by the Orang Ulu people who come from Sarawak, Malaysia, the area northwest of the island of Borneo. [ 1 ]

  8. Greater North Borneo languages - Wikipedia

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    The proposed subgroup covers some of the major languages in Southeast Asia, including Malay/Indonesian and related Malayic languages such as Minangkabau, Banjar and Iban; as well as Sundanese and Acehnese. In Borneo itself, the largest non-Malayic GNB language in terms of the number of speakers is Central Dusun, mainly spoken in Sabah. [5]

  9. Languages of Malaysia - Wikipedia

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    Iban is the main tribal language in Sarawak, while the Dusun and Kadazan languages are spoken by the natives in Sabah. [10] Some of these languages remain strong, being used in education and daily life. [4] Sabah has ten other sub-ethnic languages: Bajau, Bruneian, Murut, Lundayeh/Lun Bawang, Rungus, Bisaya, Iranun, Sama, Suluk and Sungai ...