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The '''Iban language''' ({{Lang|iba|jaku Iban}}) is spoken by the [[Iban people|Iban]], one of the [[Dayak people|Dayak]] ethnic groups, who live in [[Brunei]], the [[Indonesia]]n province of [[West Kalimantan]] and in the [[Malaysia]]n state of [[Sarawak]]. It belongs to the [[Malayic languages|Malayic subgroup]], a [[Malayo-Polynesian languages|Malayo-Polynesian]] branch of the [[Austronesian languages|Austronesian language family]].
Iban has reached a stage of becoming a [[koiné language]] in Sarawak due to contact with groups speaking other related Ibanic languages within the state.<ref name="Shin 2021">{{Cite journal |last=Shin |first=Chong |date=2021-05-07 |title=Iban as a koine language in Sarawak |url=https://scholarhub.ui.ac.id/wacana/vol22/iss1/6 |journal=Wacana |volume=22 |issue=1 |pages=102 |doi=10.17510/wacana.v22i1.985 |issn=2407-6899|doi-access=free }}</ref> It is ranked as Level 5 (i.e. "safe") in term of endangerment on [[Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale]] (EGIDS).<ref name="Su Hie 2021"/> In 2024, the [[Iban]] language was included in [[Google Translate]] and became a historic moment as the first [[Borneo]] language to be registered into [[Google Translate]] and as the first [[Malaysian]] language to be registered into it other than [[Malay]].<ref>https://www.theborneopost.com/2024/06/29/iban-among-new-languages-added-to-google-translate/</ref>
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