8 
THE LANGUAGES OF BORNEO. 
In the languages of the Undups, Seboyaus, and Balohs 
there are slight dialectic differences. The Sea Dayak 
population in the Rejang is now in excess of the Batang 
Lupar and Saribas, from which they nearly all migrated, 
but they no longer style themselves Sekrangs, Lemanaks, 
Saribas, &c., but after the names of the branch streams 
of the Rejang on which they live, as Kanowit, Serikei, 
Yong, &c.” 
The Dayaks, being an energetic aud enterprising people, 
have greatly extended their settlements in Sarawak, and 
some are found on the Muka, Oya, and Bar am Rivers. 
The Sarawak Rangers, and many of the Police of the 
British North Borneo Company, are recruited from the 
Sea Dayaks, and some have settled in the Company’s 
territory. 
When contrasting themselves with the Malays, the Sea 
Dayaks call themselves Daya, “inlanders,” and the Malays 
Laut, or “ sea-people.” Daya is used in Netherlands 
Borneo as a general name for any of the non-Mohammedan 
tribes. The name Iban, first used by the Rejang Dayaks, 
and probably of Kayan origin, is also coming into use by 
the Sea Dayaks as a collective name. 
The language of the Sea Dayaks falls apparently into 
several slightly variant dialects, though the Dictionary of 
Messrs. Howell and Bailey is said to illustrate “ the lan¬ 
guage in common use by all the tribes,” * the differences 
of dialect being only “ slight differences in pronunciation 
like the English in different counties.” St. John f says 
the difference between the dialects is not greater than that 
between London and Somersetshire. 
In the vocabulary the following dialects are illustrated:— 
Sibuyau (Seboyau) ... 
Batang Lupar or) 
Batang Ai j 
Balau (Baloh) 
Skarang (Sekrang) ... 
Bugau 
Sibuyau River, at the mouth of the 
Batang Lupar. 
Main stream of Batang Lupar River. 
Batang Lupar and'Lingga Rivers. 
Skarang tributary of the Batang Lupar. 
Hills between the Batang Lupar and 
Kapuas Rivers. 
A Vocabulary in Ling Roth of a so-called “Rejang 
River tribe ” has been shown by me + to be really a Sakai 
* W. Howell to Dr. Meyer, 1910. 
+ * Forests of the Far East,’ i. p. 78. 
\ ‘Man,’ No. 42, April, 1902. 
