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The term
Dayak is used for the languages of the
Dayak peopleThe Dayak or Dyak are the native people of Borneo. It is a loose term for over 200 riverine and hill-dwelling ethnic subgroups, located principally in the interior of Borneo, each with its own dialect, customs, laws, territory and culture, although common distinguishing traits are readily...
; that is, those languages of
BorneoBorneo is the third largest island in the world and is located north of Java Island, Indonesia, at the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia....
apart from varieties of
MalayMalay is a major language of the Austronesian family. It is the official language of Malaysia , Indonesia , Brunei and Singapore...
and language of Chinese, Indian, and European origin. According to recent (2008) classifications, they belong to two distinct branches of the
Austronesian language familyThe Austronesian languages are a language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia that are spoken by about 386 million people. It is on par with Indo-European, Niger-Congo, Afroasiatic and Uralic as one of the...
: the various groups of
BorneanThe Bornean languages are the Austronesian language families indigenous to the island of Borneo, with the exclusion of Ibanic and other Malayic languages....
and
Sabahan languagesThe Sabahan languages are a group of Austronesian languages centered on the Bornean province of Sabah.-Languages:The constituents from Blust mentioned explicitly in Adelaar & Himmelmann are,*Banggi *Dusunic *Paitanic *Ida’an...
(including Land Dayak), and the
Ibanic languagesThe Ibanic or Malayic-Dayak languages are a branch of the Malayic languages indigenous to western Borneo. They are spoken by the Iban, Selako, Kendayan, and other Dayak peoples....
of the
MalayicThe Malayic languages are a branch of the Sunda–Sulawesi languages of the Austronesian family. They include Malay, the national language of Malaysia, Indonesia, and Brunei; Minangkabau in central Sumatra; and Iban in northern Borneo....
branch, distinguished as Malayan Dayak (Sea Dayak).
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