Bamayo language

Bamayo
	Delang–Kayung–Banana’
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Borneo
Native speakers	(520,000 cited 1981)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (MP) Nuclear MP Malayic Ibanic Malayic Dayak Bamayo; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xdy
Glottolog	mala1480[2]

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 at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Malayic Dayak". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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[e18-1] Bamayo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Malayic Dayak". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.