Terjemahan Bahasa Dusun Malang — Dusun Malang Scripture Portions (Indonesia)
Overview
Terjemahan Bahasa Dusun Malang ("Translation in the Dusun Malang Language") is Jonah and Luke in the Dusun Malang language of South Kalimantan, Indonesia, published by Pioneer Bible Translators under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license and available via YouVersion/Bible.com (ID 4453; abbreviation: DUQ). Pioneer Bible Translators has been active in Kalimantan's interior language communities for decades; this two-book publication marks the first available scripture for the Dusun Malang community online.
Language and People
Dusun Malang (ISO 639-3: duq; also written Dusun Malang or Malang Dusun) is an Austronesian language: Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → East Barito. The East Barito branch is linguistically notable for including Malagasy — demonstrating that ancestors of the Malagasy people of Madagascar migrated from Borneo roughly 1,500 years ago. Dusun Malang's closest relatives are Lawangan, Dusun Witu, and Dusun Deyah.
The Dusun Malang community inhabits the interior of South Kalimantan Province (Kalimantan Selatan), primarily in the Hulu Sungai (upper river) region — a mountainous interior area of central Borneo. They are part of the broader Dayak cultural grouping (indigenous peoples of Borneo).
Estimated speakers: approximately 5,800 (Ethnologue).
Cultural Context
The Dusun peoples of Kalimantan are a subset of the Dayak peoples, distinguished from coastal Malay communities by their highland/interior settlement patterns and traditional animist religious practices alongside varying degrees of Christian and Muslim conversion. "Dusun" refers to an interior orchard-garden lifestyle, contrasting with coastal "Melayu" identity. The term "Malang" may refer to the river system or a geographic descriptor for this dialect cluster.
Publishing and Organizations
Published by Pioneer Bible Translators (pioneerbible.org, Waxahaw, North Carolina) under the CC-BY-SA 4.0 license. Pioneer Bible Translators focuses on minority languages of Southeast Asia, Papua New Guinea, and the Americas where no other translation agencies are working.