Bornean languages

E146305
Austronesian languages subgroup language subgroup

Bornean languages are a subgroup of the Malayo-Polynesian language family spoken on the island of Borneo, encompassing diverse indigenous languages of Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia.

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All labels observed (6)

Label Occurrences
Dayak languages 4
Bornean languages canonical 3
Malayic Dayak languages 1

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian languages subgroup ⓘ
language subgroup ⓘ
arealGrouping Borneo ⓘ
characteristic high linguistic diversity ⓘ
many are minority and endangered languages ⓘ
geographicDistribution island of Borneo ⓘ
hasSubgroup Barito languages subgroup ⓘ
surface form: Barito languages

Barito–Mahakam languages ⓘ
Bidayuhic languages ⓘ
Dusunic languages ⓘ
Barito languages subgroup ⓘ
surface form: Greater Barito languages

Kayanic languages ⓘ
Mahakam languages ⓘ
surface form: Kayan–Murik languages

Kenyah languages ⓘ
Kenyahic languages ⓘ
Land Dayak languages ⓘ
Bornean languages self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Melanau–Kajang languages

Murutic languages ⓘ
Greater North Borneo languages ⓘ
surface form: North Bornean languages

Saluan–Banggai languages ⓘ
surface form: Punan–Nibong languages

Sabahan languages ⓘ
Bornean languages self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Sarawak languages
includesLanguage Bakumpai language ⓘ
Banjar language ⓘ
Bidayuh language ⓘ
Bruneian Malay ⓘ
surface form: Brunei Malay

Iban language ⓘ
Kadazan Dusun language ⓘ
Kayan language ⓘ
Kayan language ⓘ
surface form: Kelabit language

Kenyah languages ⓘ
surface form: Kenyah language

Lun Bawang language ⓘ
Maanyan language ⓘ
Melanau language ⓘ
Murut language ⓘ
Ngaju language ⓘ
Punan languages ⓘ
Sama–Bajaw languages subgroup ⓘ
surface form: Sama–Bajaw languages
languageFamily Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ
partOf Austronesian languages ⓘ
surface form: Austronesian language family
region Brunei Darussalam ⓘ
Kalimantan ⓘ
Sabah ⓘ
Sarawak ⓘ
spokenBy indigenous peoples of Borneo ⓘ
spokenIn Borneo ⓘ
Brunei Darussalam ⓘ
surface form: Brunei

Indonesia ⓘ
Malaysia ⓘ
subclassOf Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.

Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Bornean languages
Description of subject: Bornean languages are a subgroup of the Malayo-Polynesian language family spoken on the island of Borneo, encompassing diverse indigenous languages of Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia.

Referenced by (11)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Malayo-Polynesian languages → hasSubgroup → Bornean languages ⓘ
Sama–Bajaw languages subgroup → relatedTo → Bornean languages ⓘ
Singkawang → hasLanguage → Bornean languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Dayak languages
Bornean languages → hasSubgroup → Bornean languages self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sarawak languages
Bornean languages → hasSubgroup → Bornean languages self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Melanau–Kajang languages
Kaharingan → languageOfRitual → Bornean languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Dayak languages
Iban language → closelyRelatedTo → Bornean languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Malayic Dayak languages
Bakumpai language → relatedTo → Bornean languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Dayak languages
Ngaju language → isPartOf → Bornean languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Dayak languages
Penan → language → Bornean languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Penan language
Western Malayo-Polynesian languages → hasSubgroup → Bornean languages ⓘ