East Barito languages

East Barito
Geographic; distribution	south Borneo (Indonesia), Madagascar
Linguistic classification	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (Barito) East Barito; ; ;
Glottolog	east2713[1]

The East Barito languages are a group of a dozen Dayak (Austronesian) 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
- South: Dusun Malang, Dusun Witu, Ma'anyan, Paku
Malagasy (incl. Bushi on Mayotte)
North: Lawangan, Tawoyan

Several of the languages are named 'Dusun' because they are spoken by the Dusun people; they are not to be confused with the Dusunic languages, which are also spoken by the Dusun but belong to a different branch of Malayo-Polynesian.

Footnotes

Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "East Greater Barito". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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References

Blust, Robert. 2006. 'The linguistic macrohistory of the Philippines'. In Liao & Rubino, eds, Current Issues in Philippine Linguistics and Anthropology. pp 31–68.

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[Glottolog-1] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "East Greater Barito". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.