Mendawai language

Mendawai
Mendawai
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Kalimantan
Ethnicity	Mendawai
Native speakers	(undated figure of 20,000)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian West Barito South Mendawai; ; ; ;
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. It is at the mutually unintelligible end of a dialect continuum with Ngaju. Mendawai and Ngaju share c. 70% of their basic vocabulary.

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