Austronesian language spoken in Kalimantan, Indonesia
Berau
Basa Barrau/Banua
Native to
Indonesia
Ethnicity
Berau
Native speakers
11,000 (2007)[1]
Language family
Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Malayo-Sumbawan ?
Malayic
Berau
Language codes
ISO 639-3
bve
Glottolog
bera1262
Berau, is a Malayic language which is spoken by Berau Malays in Berau Regency, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. It is one three native varieties of Malay in southern Borneo along with Banjar and Kutai, of which it forms a dialect continuum.
According to the 2007 edition of Ethnologue there are 11,200 speakers of Berau.
^Berau at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
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