Where are the bidayuh ?

Bidayuh is one of the ethnic groups found in Sarawak in Borneo where large number of the population is located in the first division, Kuching which is also the capital city of Sarawak.  The areas which are considered as the Bidayuh areas are Lundu, Bau, Penrissen, Padawan, and Serian, where most of the Bidayuh villages can be found.  Each area speak its own dialect: Lundu speak Salako-lara; Bratak, Singghi, Krokong and Jagoi speak Bau-Jagoi; Penrissen, Padawan and the Siburan vicinity speak biatah; and Bidayuh who live around Serian such as Tebekang, Mongkos, Tebedu to Tanjung Amo near the border of Kalimantan Indonesia speak bukar-sadong.  Big towns in these areas are Lundu, Bau, Kota  Padawan, and Serian, respectively.  Though majority who settled in these areas are Bidayuh, other races such as Chinese, Malay and Iban can also be found.  If you happen to be in either of these towns, don't be surprise to hear that other community such as the Chinese, Malay and Iban can also speak fluent local dialect of the Bidayuh in that area.

All the Bidayuh, in nature, are of the same race but speak different dialects. The Salako-Lara dialect is totally different from the Bau-Jagoi dialect even though they are neighbors.  The same goes to the Biatah and the Bukar-Sadong dialect where some words are pronounced differently though the meanings are the same.  With the differences in the pronunciation, Bidayuh from one area normally will have difficulty in communicating with a fellow Bidayuh from another area.  Thus, local Malay language is most commonly use to communicate.

At home in villages, family members still speak Bidayuh to each other, but those who live in bigger towns and cities, especially the young generation, they prefer to speak either Malay or English.  It is not a surprise nowadays to find some Bidayuhs who do not know how to speak the Bidayuh language at all.  If the trend continue and there is no effort to preserve the Bidayuh languages, there will come a time when we will lost our own unique languages.  As to date, there is still no common Bidayuh language adopted by the Bidayuh communities in Sarawak to be taught in school yet.    This is probably due to no consensus from each of the Bidayuh community to accept one particular dialect as a common language.  Thus, there is no common dialect used in spoken and written language.  That is why Bidayuh books or articles published are written in many Bidayuh dialects.  The dialect used depend very much on the origin of the author.  This is very sad because good book or article written can only be read and understood by those who speak the same dialect or language as the author unless, of course, the book or article is translated into Bahasa Malaysia, English or other Bidayuh dialects.

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Bidayuh Netizen on the net

Some of bidayuhs very own web designer and hobbyist have shown their creativity and talents on web site. Please follow the links below to see for yourself on how they created and maintained their web page and site.

Please compliment the writers whenever you use their written articles, literatures and so on.

Please click below to follow the link to his wonderful homepage.

Kelly Renim Muyang with her electronic cartoon, if you would like to see it. She's from Kampung Bunuk, Penrissen. A unique way of showing people "who actually the bidayuh are and it is on cartoon!", She wrote a number of article and also archiving on bidayuh. You can see her below joining the Kumang Gawai Contest. Hep..Hep..Hore... Hep..Hep.. Hore.

Please click below to follow the link to her wonderful homepage. Kelly Renim Muyang

Kron Aken, A bidayuh from Kampung Stenggang, Bau. He say " Welcome. Since you have stumbled into this page, I would like to invite you to browse through this web site to learn about my village - Kampung Stenggang. There are pictures on most pages so you can see how the village look like and what people do." He have also include in his page his reference finding on the bidayuh. Please feel free to browse it. Reference on Dayak Bidayuh.

Please click below to follow the link to his wonderful homepage.

Kampong Stenggang: A Bidayuh village

Joseph Orlean Jinap - A bidayuh from Kampung Stenggang, Bau, A small collection of book he recommend for those who like reading. Orang Kuching but work and live in Miri. Jangan jadi orang minyak sudah!!.

Please click below to follow the link to his wonderful homepage.

Herbert Buhod - A bidayuh from Kampung Rayang, Serian with his page focusing on one of his interest, music.

Please click below to follow the link to his wonderful homepage.

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Bernadette Ita Andrew Siddle - A bidayuh from Kampung Semaba, Kuching with her saying "Hello to those who's reading this...whoever you might be... thanks for visiting this page of mine though it doesn't really promise much. Just making use of the so-called technology.. don't get me wrong here...I love the technology" 

Please click below to follow the link to her wonderful homepage.

"A person's ongoing journey touches on who the person really is.."

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 Tan Joon Bin @ Richard @ Apeng - A bidayuh-Chinese from Bau. This is what he got to say " food & beverage department ( Coffee House ) as Captain in one of the hotel in Miri (somewhere in Borneo island)", and if any of you want to be F&B yourself Richard have a list of Recipe's and beverage to enjoy. 

Please click below to follow the link to his wonderful homepage.

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Zeplin Uteh aka Mr Genjat - A Bidayuh from Kampung Patung, "Happy Gawai to all Dayak's whereever they maybe, here are  some Bidayuh songs that I composed for Gawai" he compose a few song and a very entreprenuer kind of young man, Hope to see that he make it to the top. Well, do enjoy his song and music. He also created and maintained to share with us Kampung Patung Saberkas Football Club Web Page. 

Please click below to follow the link to his wonderful homepage.

Zeplin Uteh's Music Center 

Football Club Links

KG PATUNG SABERKAS UNIT FOOTBALL

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Hamilton Harris -- THIS PAGE IS AN ONLINE TRIBUTE TO SNOOP DOGG AND HIS MUSIC.

Please click below to follow the link to his homepage.

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June Rubis - A Bidayuh lady from Bau. Her site have some interesting features on the wild cats of Borneo including, an assorted "wacky" bunch of fauna!

Please click below to follow the link to her wonderful homepage.

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Veronga - A Bidayuh orignated from Kpg. Giam. Her site topics focused on the rainforest, the orangutan, the hornbill and bits and pieces on the Bidayuh.

Please click below to follow the link to her wonderful homepage.

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Sean Paul Nicholas Rubis - A Bidayuh orignated from Bau. Currently studying at St. Joseph school, Kuching. And don't mind his 'twisted world' logo as the page is actually meant as the Snegs's Place of Peace.

Please click below to follow the link to his wonderful homepage.

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William Roges -- He is a businessman from Kpg. Sibuluh, doing construction, maintenance work, and civil work. If you need to construct a Baruk, contact this man.

Please click below to follow the link to his wonderful homepage.

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Huge Adrian -- Little is known about him. His site touches on a few topics related to the Bidayuh.

Please click below to follow the link to his wonderful homepage.

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Bidat Webmasters -- BIDAT is an ad-hoc web site created mainly for fun - most probably to be viewed by close families and (e-)friends. The word "Bidat" was derived from Bidayuh Biatah language, which means, "monitor lizard". The acronym of B I D A T itself stands for B idayuh Inter-networking Development AuThority, where we try to pool talented Bidayuhs in every aspects of web design, IT development, and of course, e-commerce! However, we are not keen to implement e-commerce for the time being since this is not our main objective to set up this web site. Anyway, that’s what inter-networking mean to us! Click here for their promo page.

Please click below to follow the link to their wonderful homepage.

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If you happen to be developing and designing web page and site and would like to be included in please email to bidayuh@bidayuh.com. Please include your site address and a brief description about the site.

 

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