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Mendawai language
| Mendawai | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Kalimantan |
| Ethnicity | Mendawai |
Native speakers | (undated figure of 20,000[citation needed]) |
Austronesian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
Mendawai is an Austronesian language spoken along the lower course of the Arut River in West Kotawaringin Regency, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.[1] It is at the mutually unintelligible end of a dialect continuum with Ngaju. Mendawai and Ngaju share c. 70% of their basic vocabulary.[2][3]
- ^ Rianti, Yuni. 2009. Pemetaan pemakaian kata sapaan dalam Bahasa Mendawai dan Kota Waringin di masyarakat Pangkalan Bun, Kalimantan Tengah. Malang: Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang.
- ^ White, Chad (2008). Genetic inheritance in the Malayic languages of Kotawaringin Barat, Indonesia (M.A. thesis). Athens: University of Georgia.
- ^ Wood, Lalani (2000). "Language variation in Kotawaringin Barat and its implications for community development: A survey report". In Michael Leigh (ed.). Borneo 2000: Sixth Biennial Meeting of the Borneo Research Council. Kota Samarahan: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak : Sarawak Development Institute.
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