Mbalo

Mbalo
Spoken in	Kalimantan ( Indonesia )
speaker	10,000 ( SIL , 1991)
Linguistic ; classification	Austronesian languages Malayo-Polynesian languages South Sulawesian languages (?) Tamanic languages Mbalo ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	emb

Embaloh Language or Embaloh is in the district of Kapuas Hulu in the province of Kalimantan Barat spoken language. It belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian languages . Except for Taman, the language is not closely related to any other language in Borneo. Adelaar and Himmelmann (2005) consider it more closely related to Buginese , a South Sulawesian language .

A dialect or possibly its own language is Kalis (Kalis Maloh).

Individual evidence

K. Alexander Adelaar and Nikolaus Himmelmann, The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar. Routledge, 2005.