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The Iban language (jaku Iban) is spoken by the Iban, one of the Dayak ethnic groups, who live in Brunei, the Indonesian province of West Kalimantan and in the Malaysian state of Sarawak. It belongs to the Malayic subgroup , a Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family .
The Dunging script or Iban script is a semi-alphabetic script used to write the Iban language of Sarawak. It was invented in 1947 by Dunging anak Gunggu (1904–1985), who revised the initial 77 glyphs to the current 59 glyphs in 1962.
The Tangkin (also known as Duku Tangkin or Parang Tangkin) is a traditional parang (knife) of the Iban people from Sarawak, Malaysia and West Kalimantan, Indonesia. [2]The word tangkin in Iban language means "to wear" or "to don", specifically some weapon such as a sword. [3]
Iban Bible. Portions of the Bible in the Iban language (Ethnologue: iba) spoken by the Iban people (also known as the Sea Dayak) of Sarawak was first translated in the 19th century. In 1864, the Gospels of Matthew and Mark was published by the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge.
The Iban are an indigenous ethnic group native to Borneo, primarily found in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, Brunei and parts of West Kalimantan, Indonesia.They are one of the largest groups among the broader Dayak peoples, a term historically used to describe the indigenous communities of Borneo. [5]
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 ...
Some numbers differ, but East Malaysia contains a total of about 64 indigenous groups, around 39 in Sabah and 25 in Sarawak. [3] The Orang Asal make up 60% of Sabah's population, and 50% of Sarawak's population. Sabah's population is hugely diverse, with over 50 languages and 80 dialects spoken. [8] The largest group on Sarawak is the Iban. [9]
In 1941, Sandin entered the civil service as a junior Native Officer in the Raj of Sarawak, just before the Japanese occupation of Borneo.After WWII, he was transferred to the Education Department, and later joined the Sarawak Information Office as an Information Officer and worked as editor of the first Iban language news publication for two years.