Land Dayak

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Land Dayak is an older collective term for the indigenous Bidayuh people of Borneo, known for their distinct languages, hill-farming traditions, and longhouse-based village communities in Malaysian and Indonesian Kalimantan regions.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Land Dayak canonical 3
Dayak cultural sphere 1

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Statements (41)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ethnic group
agriculturalProduct hill rice
pepper
alternateName Bidayuh
associatedProvince Sarawak
West Kalimantan
colonialHistory term used in British colonial ethnography
country Indonesia
Malaysia
culturalRegion northwestern Borneo
culture communal longhouse life
elaborate agricultural festivals
rice cultivation rituals
ethnonymStatus older collective term
historicalTermFor Bidayuh subgroups in Sarawak and West Kalimantan
languageBranch Land Dayak languages
languageFamily Austronesian languages
linguisticDiversity multiple distinct Bidayuh dialects
locatedIn Borneo
Indonesia
Kalimantan
Malaysia
Sarawak
modernPreferredName Bidayuh people
neighboringGroups Chinese communities in Sarawak
Iban
Malay
region Sarawak highlands
West Kalimantan
religion Christianity
Islam
socialOrganization clan-based structure
subgroupOf Dayak peoples
traditionalCraft basketry
weaving
traditionalDwelling longhouse
traditionalEconomy hill farming
swidden agriculture
traditionalLeadership village headman
traditionalReligion animism
traditionalSettlementPattern hilltop villages

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Referenced by (4)

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

Bidayuh people ethnonymVariant Land Dayak
Bidayuh alternativeName Land Dayak
Uma’ Pawe language belongsToCulturalArea Dayak cultural sphere
linked to: Land Dayak
Biatah Bidayuh languageFamily Land Dayak