The term Dayak is used for the languages of the Dayak people

Dayak people

The Dayak or Dyak are the native people of Borneo. It is a loose term for over 200 riverine and hill-dwelling ethnic subgroups, located principally in the interior of Borneo, each with its own dialect, customs, laws, territory and culture, although common distinguishing traits are readily...

; that is, those languages of Borneo

Borneo

Borneo is the third largest island in the world and is located north of Java Island, Indonesia, at the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia....

 apart from varieties of Malay

Malay language

Malay is a major language of the Austronesian family. It is the official language of Malaysia , Indonesia , Brunei and Singapore...

 and language of Chinese, Indian, and European origin. According to recent (2008) classifications, they belong to two distinct branches of the Austronesian language family

Austronesian languages

The Austronesian languages are a language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia that are spoken by about 386 million people. It is on par with Indo-European, Niger-Congo, Afroasiatic and Uralic as one of the...

: the various groups of Bornean

Bornean languages

The Bornean languages are the Austronesian language families indigenous to the island of Borneo, with the exclusion of Ibanic and other Malayic languages....

 and Sabahan languages

Sabahan languages

The Sabahan languages are a group of Austronesian languages centered on the Bornean province of Sabah.-Languages:The constituents from Blust mentioned explicitly in Adelaar & Himmelmann are,*Banggi *Dusunic *Paitanic *Ida’an...

 (including Land Dayak), and the Ibanic languages

Ibanic languages

The Ibanic or Malayic-Dayak languages are a branch of the Malayic languages indigenous to western Borneo. They are spoken by the Iban, Selako, Kendayan, and other Dayak peoples....

 of the Malayic

Malayic languages

The Malayic languages are a branch of the Sunda–Sulawesi languages of the Austronesian family. They include Malay, the national language of Malaysia, Indonesia, and Brunei; Minangkabau in central Sumatra; and Iban in northern Borneo....

branch, distinguished as Malayan Dayak (Sea Dayak).

External links

• Family tree on the www.ethnologue.com site
• Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database
• Borneo Languages at the KITLV, Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies.