Wikipedia:
Lara language
| Lara’ | ||
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| Spoken in: | Indonesia | |
| Region: | Borneo | |
| Total speakers: | 11,000 | |
| Language family: | Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Borneo-Philippines Land Dayak Lara’ |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | — | |
| ISO 639-3: | — | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Lara (also called Berkati, Land Dajak II: Berkati, Lara’, and Luru) is a language spoken by some 12,000 people in Borneo. Speakers are found in the Indonesian area of the island (Kalimantan) on the Upper Lundu and Sambas rivers, around Bengkayang east of Gunung Pendering, and to the north, in Pejampi and two other villages (incidentally, this is one of the most linguistically diverse places on the planet). It is also spoken in parts of Sarawak, the Malaysian portion of the island.
Most information about it has been gathered by various Christian missionary groups.
External links
- Rosettaproject.org
- Global recordings, a Christian Mission group
- Language family tree, from Ethnologue.com, another mission group
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