Ibanic languages in Kalimantan Barat, Indonesia: exploring nomenclature, distribution and characteristics.(RESEARCH NOTES) From: Borneo Research Bulletin | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: Collins, James T. | COPYRIGHT 2004 Borneo Research Council, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Introduction

Iban, spoken as a first language by hundreds of thousands of people in Sarawak, Brunei, Sabah and western Kalimantan and as a second language by scores of thousands more, (1) has long been an object of scholarly research. For more than 150 years, wordlists, dictionaries, grammars, harvest chants, bible translations, comic books, novels, and school primers have been published from Nottingham to Bombay and Kanowit. (2) The Iban community's strong demographic p...

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