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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.
This film marks the first full-length feature to be shot in Sarawak and the first time an Iban woman played the lead role [51] Bejalai is a 1987 film directed by Stephen Teo, notable for being the first film to be made in the Iban language and also the first Malaysian film to be selected for the Berlin International Film Festival. The film is ...
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.
In 1933, the full New Testament was published by the British and Foreign Bible Society. [21] A new translation of the whole Bible in Iban known as the Bup Kudus was initiated in 1988 [22] and published in 2001 by the Bible Society of Malaysia. This was revised and published as the Bup Kudus Baru (transl. New Holy Scriptures) in 2011. [23]
Sarawak Malay (Standard Malay: Bahasa Melayu Sarawak or Bahasa Sarawak, Jawi: بهاس ملايو سراوق , Sarawak Malay: Kelakar Sarawak) is a Malayic language native to the State of Sarawak. It is a common language used by natives of Sarawak [ 1 ] and also as the important mother tongue for the Sarawakian Malay people .
Sarawak was a British Protectorate at this time, not a British colony as stated in the film. Sarawak became a British Colony after the Second World War when the Third Rajah abdicated. The fictitious story about the Iban custom of women serving as a "sleeping dictionary" (Malay: kamus tidur ) is loosely based on the Iban courtship tradition ...
Malaysia (Sabah, Sarawak & Federal Territory of Labuan) Languages; Kedayan and Sabah Malay, Sarawak Malay, Standard Malay and English: Religion; Sunni Islam (majority) Related ethnic groups; Bruneian Malay, Dusun (Brunei), Banjarese, Javanese, Lun Bawang/Lundayeh