Embaloh language

{{short description|Austronesian language spoken in Kalimantan, Indonesia}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Embaloh

| region = West Kalimantan

| states = Indonesia

| speakers = 10,000

| date = 1991

| ref = e25

| familycolor = Austronesian

| fam2 = Malayo-Polynesian

| fam3 = South Sulawesi

| fam4 = Bugis–Tamanic

| fam5 = Tamanic

| dia1 = Kalis

| iso3 = emb

| glotto = emba1238

| glottorefname = Embaloh

}}

Embaloh (Maloh) is an Austronesian (Dayak) language spoken in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.{{cite journal |last=T. King |first=Victor |year=1976 |title=Some Apects of Iban-Maloh Contact in West Kalimantan |pages=85–114 |journal=Indonesia|doi=10.2307/3350958 |jstor=3350958 |hdl=1813/53618 |hdl-access=free }}{{rp|86}} Apart from Taman, it is not close to other languages on Borneo, but rather belongs to the South Sulawesi languages closest to Buginese.{{cite book |last=Adelaar |first=K. A. |year=1994 |chapter=The classification of the Tamanic languages |editor1=Tom Dutton |editor2=Darrell T. Tryon |title=Language contact and change in the Austronesian world |pages=1–42 |place=Berlin |publisher=Mouton de Gruyter}} Many speakers of Embaloh also speak Iban, leading to the adoption of some Iban loanwords into Embaloh.{{rp|114}}

The Kalis dialect (Kalis Maloh) may be a distinct language.