Keninjal language

Keninjal
Keninjal
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Borneo
Native speakers	32,000 (2007)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Malayic Ibanic? Keninjal; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	knl
Glottolog	keni1248

Last updated May 15, 2025

Keninjal (Dayak Kaninjal) is a Malayic Dayak language of Borneo. Glottolog once classified Keninjal as a Western Malayic Dayak language alongside Kendayan, but Smith (2017) includes it in the Ibanic branch of Malayic based on phonological evidence.^[2]

References

↑ Keninjal at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
↑ Smith, Alexander (2017). The Languages of Borneo: A Comprehensive Classification (PDF) (Ph.D. Dissertation). University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 July 2023. Retrieved 26 May 2019.

This article about Malayic languages is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.

[e18-1] Keninjal at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[smith-2] Smith, Alexander (2017). The Languages of Borneo: A Comprehensive Classification (PDF) (Ph.D. Dissertation). University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 July 2023. Retrieved 26 May 2019.

[1]

[2]