The Kayan language is a macrolanguage spoken by the Kayan people of Indonesian Borneo. An Austronesian language, it is related to Bahasa Indonesia, and a distant cousin of Malagasy and Hawaiian.

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More from Wikipedia: "Kayan (Kajan, Kayan proper) is a dialect cluster spoken by the Kayan people of Borneo. It is a cluster of closely related dialects with limited mutual intelligibility and is itself part of the Kayan-Murik group of Austronesian languages. Baram Kayan is a local trade language. Bahau is part of the dialect cluster, but is not ethnically Kayan."

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