Embaloh language

Embaloh
Embaloh
Native to	Indonesia
Region	West Kalimantan
Native speakers	(10,000 cited 1991)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian South Sulawesi Bugis–Tamanic Tamanic Embaloh; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Kalis;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	emb
Glottolog	emba1238

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.

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