Iban language

The Iban language (jaku Iban) is spoken by the Iban, one of the Dayak ethnic groups, who live in Brunei, the Indonesian province of West Kalimantan and in the Malaysian state of Sarawak. It belongs to the Malayic subgroup, a Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family.

Iban
Jaku Iban
Native toBrunei, Indonesia, Malaysia
RegionBorneo
EthnicityIban
Native speakers
2,450,000 (2019)
1,900,000 L2 speakers in Malaysia (2019)
Latin, Dunging
Official status
Regulated by
  • Tun Jugah Foundation
  • Ministry of Education Malaysia
  • Dayak Cultural Foundation
Language codes
ISO 639-2iba
ISO 639-3iba
Glottologiban1264

The Iban language is ranked as Level 5 (safe) in term of endangerment on Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale (EGIDS).

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