Preferred language name(s): Banjarese
Alternative names: Banjar Language, Bahasa, Basa Banjar, Bandjarese, Banjar Malay, Labuhan
Language classification: Austronesian Language 
Geographical areas where spoken: Kalimantan Selatan province: Banjarmasin area; Kalimantan Tengah province: Palangkaraya, Pangkalanbun, and Sampit; Kalimantan Timur province: Kutai, Pasir, and Pulau Laut coastal regions, north toward Samarinda city and Mahakan delta; Kalimantan Barat province: some in coastal Matua; Kalimantan south and southeastern coasts, Java Sea and Makassar Strait.
Approximate number of speakers: 3,500,000 (2000 census), increasing. Total users in all countries: 3,505,000.
Other languages spoken in the community: Many, mainly Indonesian
Official language(s) in your country: Indonesian
Other language(s) in your country: The number of individual languages listed for Indonesia is 719. Of these, 707 are living and 12 are extinct. Of the living languages, 701 are indigenous and 6 are non-indigenous. Furthermore, 18 are institutional, 81 are developing, 260 are vigorous, 272 are in trouble, and 76 are dying.
Does your language have a widely accepted writing system? Roman Script

Language Background
Language Status: EGIDS:

3 (Wider communication)

Inter-generational transmission:
The language is used in work and mass media without official status to transcend language differences across a region.
Most adults and some children are speakers.
All native community members speak the language, but many transmigrational populations from Java can only speak marginally.
Absolute number of speakers:
>100000
Speaker number trends:
Almost all community members speak the language; speaker numbers are stable or increasing.
Domains of use of the language:
Used in government, mass media, education and the workplace; most speakers value their language education and literacy in the language are valued by most community members; government and other institutions support the language.

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