Ma'anyan or Ma'anjan or Maanyak Dayak is an Austronesian

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...

 language belonging to the East Barito languages

East Barito languages

The East Barito languages are a group of a dozen Dayak languages of Borneo, and most famously Malagasy, the national language of Madagascar. They are named after the Barito River.The languages are,*Central–South**Dusun Deyah...

. It is spoken by about 150,000 Ma'anyan people

Ma'anyan people

Ma'anyan or Maanyak are a people indigenous to Borneo from the Dayak group. They speak Ma'anyan language.-External links:...

 (subgroup of 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...

) living in the central Kalimantan

Kalimantan

In English, the term Kalimantan refers to the Indonesian portion of the island of Borneo, while in Indonesian, the term "Kalimantan" refers to the whole island of Borneo....

, Indonesia

Indonesia

Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

. It is closely related to Malagasy languages spoken in Madagascar

Madagascar

The Republic of Madagascar is an island country located in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa...

. There is high lexical similarity with other East Barito languages like Paku language (77%) or Dusun Witu (75%).

Vocabulary

Vocabulary comparison between Banjarese, Ma'anyan and Malay language.

Malay Malay language Malay is a major language of the Austronesian family. It is the official language of Malaysia , Indonesia , Brunei and Singapore...	Banjarese	Ma'anyan
monyet	warik	warik
bemban	bamban	waman
bulian	balian	wadian
maharaja	maharaja	miharaja
patih	patih	patis
lama	lawas	lawah
teman	kawal	kawal
obat	tatamba	tatamba
senang	aray	aray
masih	magun	pagun
arya	aria	uria
demang	damang	damhong