Dayak
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- proper noun
- The Selako Dayak are an ethnic group of approximately 10,000 people who live in western Borneo along both sides.
Examples
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The ritual the Selako Dayak call basunat is of central importance in their culture.
Academic text (1991) -
Since Dayak's death, many musical ensembles have performed poetry and songs dedicated to him.
Academic text (2005) -
MIKE: The Dayak have been panning this river for over 5,000 years.
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He grouped the Batak with the Dayak and Balinese.
Academic text (2018) -
So, listen, the Dayak are warrior people, probably best known for ngayau, headhunfing.
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The term "Dayak" is often employed generically to include the many non-Muslim indigenous peoples of mainly interior Borneo (King 1993, 29-58).
Academic text (2011) -
One man worked near Fresno, California; another, a Tuareg student in Seattle, was a nephew of the late Mano Dayak (the latter a rebel leader and peace mediator in Niger during the armed conflict, who was killed in a tragic airplane accident in 1995).
Academic text (2005) -
The Dayak have been panning this river for over 5,000 years.
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The ritual the Selako Dayak call basunat is of central importance in their culture.
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Pareh's inhabitants belong to the indigenous tribes of Borneo collectively identified as the Dayak.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Dayak comes from a Malay word used for the inland native groups of Borneo, so a Dayak is a member of those native peoples.