Social:Berau Malay language
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Short description: Austronesian language spoken in Kalimantan, Indonesia
| Berau | |
|---|---|
| Basa Barrau/Banua | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Ethnicity | Berau |
Native speakers | 11,000 (2007)[1] |
Austronesian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bve |
| Glottolog | bera1262[2] |
Berau, is a Malayic language which is spoken by Berau Malays in Berau Regency, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. It is one three native varieties of Malay in southern Borneo along with Banjar and Kutai, of which it forms a dialect continuum.
According to the 2007 edition of Ethnologue there are 11,200 speakers of Berau.
References
- ↑ Berau at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Berau Malay". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/bera1262.
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