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Bamayo language

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Native to
  
Indonesia

Native speakers
  
(520,000 cited 1981)

Glottolog
  
mala1480

Region
  
Borneo

ISO 639-3
  
xdy

Language family
  
Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (MP) Nuclear MP Malayic Ibanic Malayic Dayak Bamayo

Bamayo (Bumayoh), listed in Ethnologue simply as "Malayic Dayak", is a Malayic Dayak language of Borneo.

Dialects form a chain that may be better considered three languages. Ethnologue lists them as southern: Delang [200,000 speakers] and Kayung [100,000]; western: Banana’ [100,000] and Tapitn [300]; and eastern: Mentebah-Suruk [20,000], Semitau [10,000], and Suhaid [10,000]; and additionally (not arranged geographically): Arut (Sukarame), Lamandau (Landau Kantu), Sukamara (Kerta Mulya), Riam (Nibung Terjung), Belantikan (Sungkup), Tamuan, Tomun, Pangin, Sekakai, Silat.

References

Bamayo language Wikipedia