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Berau Malay

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Berau Malay
basa Barrau, basa Banua
Native toIndonesia
EthnicityBerau
Native speakers
11,000 (2007)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3bve
Glottologbera1262

Berau Malay, or just Berau, is an Malayic language which is spoken by Berau Malays in Berau Regency, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. It is one three native Malayic varieties in southeastern 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 Malay.

References

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  1. ^ Berau Malay at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)