Berau Malay

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.

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

According to the 2007 edition of Ethnologue there are 11,200 speakers of Berau.

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