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Barito (bärē`tō), river, c.550 mi (890 km) long, rising in the mountains of central Borneo, Indonesia, and flowing generally S to the Java Sea. Banjarmasin is the head of oceangoing navigation. The wide floodplain of the lower Barito is intensely cultivated and contains one of Indonesia's largest rubber plantations. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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This agrees strikingly with the linguistic evidence that the languages spoken around the Barito River in southern Borneo are the closest extant relatives of Malagasy languages. In Hudson (1967), some of these wordlists were used to propose a classification of the variants spoken in the Barito River Basin. As findings from the extensive excavation area of Kuta Batagoh near the mouth of the Murong River, as well as Schwaner's observation of the densely populated Terusan area (sandwiched between the lower Kahayan and the Murong River) demonstrate (Knapen 2001: 168; Riwut 1958: 379, 383), the area westward of the lower Barito River was inhabited by the Ngaju. |
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