Embaloh language

Embaloh
Native toIndonesia
RegionWest Kalimantan
Native speakers
(10,000 cited 1991)
Dialects
  • Kalis
Language codes
ISO 639-3emb
Glottologemba1238

Embaloh (Maloh) is an Austronesian (Dayak) language of spoken in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.: 86  Apart from Taman, it is not close to other languages on Borneo, but rather belongs to the South Sulawesi languages closest to Buginese. Many speakers of Embaloh also speak Iban, leading to the adoption of some Iban loanwords into Embaloh.: 114 

The Kalis dialect (Kalis Maloh) may be a distinct language.

Sample

Notes: Normalized orthography with ng and ' instead of ŋ and superscript ʔ.

"Aisi antuun indi' mantoan ulu'ulu'. Bopu' poang kule'a dakatoaniak ulu'ulu'," kaingka lalo i Lang Kibo. "Ona'kin, ti'kin matoan bapi!"
"These ghosts never stop asking. I'm getting fed up with their questions to me", said Lang Kibo. "Just watch it, if you started to ask again!"

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