Editing Iban language (section)

{{short description|Austronesian language spoken in Brunei, Kalimantan, and Sarawak}}
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{{Infobox language
| name             = Iban
| altname          = 
| nativename       = {{lang|iba|Jaku Iban}}
| states           = [[Brunei]], [[Indonesia]], [[Malaysia]]
| region           = [[Borneo]]
| speakers         = {{sigfig|2,450,000|3}}
| ethnicity        = [[Iban people|Iban]] 
| date             = 2019
| ref              = e18
| speakers2        = 1,900,000 [[L2 speakers]] in Malaysia (2019)<ref name=e18/>
| familycolor      = Austronesian
| fam2             = [[Malayo-Polynesian languages|Malayo-Polynesian]]
| fam3             = [[Malayic languages|Malayic]]
| fam4             = [[Ibanic languages|Ibanic]]
| script           = [[Latin script|Latin]], [[Dunging script|Dunging]]
| iso2             = iba
| iso3             = iba
| glotto           = iban1264
| glottorefname    = Iban
| agency           = *Tun Jugah Foundation<ref name="Su Hie 2021"/>
*Ministry of Education Malaysia<ref name="Shin 2021"/>
*Dayak Cultural Foundation<ref name="Shin 2021"/>
|map=Iban language distribution.svg
| mapcaption       = {{Legend | #0062FF | Iban is the majority language where vast majority are [[first language]] speakers}}
{{Legend | #74B4FF | Iban is a minority language}}
}}
[[File:WIKITONGUES- Sedang speaking Iban.webm|thumb|An Iban speaker, recorded in [[Malaysia]].]]
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"/> Since 2024, the Iban language is included in [[Google Translate]]<ref name="Google"/> under [[Malaysia]] domain.