Social:Keninjal language

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Short description: Malayic language spoken on Borneo
Keninjal
Native toIndonesia
RegionBorneo
Native speakers
32,000 (2007)[1]
Austronesian
  • Malayo-Polynesian
Language codes
ISO 639-3knl
Glottologkeni1248[2]

Keninjal (Dayak Kaninjal) is a Malayic Dayak language of Borneo. Glottolog classifies Keninjal as a Western Malayic Dayak language alongside Kendayan, but Smith (2017) includes it in the Ibanic branch of Malayic based on phonological evidence.[3]

References

  1. Keninjal at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Keninjal". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/keni1248. 
  3. Smith, Alexander (2017). The Languages of Borneo: A Comprehensive Classification (PDF) (Ph.D. Dissertation). University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Retrieved 26 May 2019.