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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 collect and document oral Iban literature.
This film marks the first full-length feature to be shot in Sarawak and the first time an Iban woman played the lead role [55] 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 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.
Bahasa Sarawak is the most common language of Sarawak Malays and other indigenous tribes. The Iban language, which has minor regional variations, is the most widely spoken native language, with 60 per cent of the Sarawak population speaking it as a first language.
Since the arrival of Europeans and the subsequent colonisation of the area, headhunting gradually faded out of practice although many other tribal customs and practices as well as the Iban language continue to thrive. The Iban population is concentrated in Brunei, the Indonesian province of West Kalimantan and the Malaysian state of Sarawak.
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.
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 ...
[89] [108] The majority of Sibu Chinese are multilingual and are able to communicate in Sarawak Malay, the indigenous native Iban language and English. [109] Indigenous languages such as Sarawak Malay, Melanau, Bidayuh and Iban are also spoken.