Dayak
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A language spoken by native people of Borneo
- noun
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idioma dayak
- The Dayak language is rich in tradition.
Examples
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The Dayak language has many dialects across different regions of Borneo.
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She is studying Dayak to better understand the culture of the island.
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Linguists recorded a rare Dayak spoken in the remote highland community.
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Have you ever heard of the Dayak language?
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The researcher learned to speak Dayak to communicate with the local community in Borneo.
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In her studies of indigenous languages, she found that Dayak has unique grammatical structures.
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Many children in the village speak Dayak as their first language before learning Bahasa Indonesia.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Dayak comes from a Malay name for the native peoples of Borneo, so a Dayak language is one of the many languages spoken by those peoples.
