20260923-0 Ribun 2010-01-01 2025-08-11 1950-05-09 RIR 2012-06-27 2011-10-06 Ribun Ribun is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of Borneo. The Malayo-Polynesian languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages encompassing approximately 390 million speakers. All major Austronesian languages belong to the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup. Together with closely related Jangkang (djo), Semandang (sdq), Sanggau (scg) and Kembayan (xem) languages, Ribun belongs to the Southern Land Dayak sub-branch. Austronesian languages often possess phoneme inventories smaller than the world average. Two salient morphological characteristics are a system of affixation and reduplication to form new words. rir rir RIR false RIR 1950-05-09 RIR