Editing Dayak people (section)

==Etymology==
It is commonly assumed that the name originates from the [[Brunei Malay|Bruneian]] and [[Melanau language|Melanau]] word for "interior people", without any reference to an exact ethnic group. Particularly, it derives from a related [[Kenyah languages|Kenyah]] word for "upstream" (compare with ethnonym [[Lun Bawang|Lun ''Dayeh'']]).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lindblad |first1=J. Thomas |title=Between the Dayak and the Dutch: The Economic History of Southeast Kalimantan 1880-1942 |date=1988 |publisher=Foris Publications |location=Dordrecht |page=2}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author-link1=Robert Blust|last1=Blust |first1=Robert |last2=Truseel |first2=Stephen |title=*''daya'' upriver, toward the interior |url=https://acd.clld.org/cognatesets/30288 |website=Austronesian Comparative Dictionary Online |publisher=Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology |access-date=8 December 2024 |date=2010}}</ref> The term was adopted by Dutch and German authors as an umbrella term for any non-Muslim natives of Borneo. Thus, historically, the difference between Dayak and non-Dayak natives could be understood as a religious distinction. English writers disapproved of the classification made by the Dutch and Germans, with [[James Brooke]] preferring to use the term Dayak for only two distinct groups, the Land (Bidayuh) and Sea Dayaks (Iban).<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/116158|author= Tillotson |date=1994|title=Who invented the Dayaks? : historical case studies in art, material culture and ethnic identity from Borneo|website=Open Research Library|pages= 2 v |publisher=Australian National University|doi= 10.25911/5d70f0cb47d77 |access-date=13 May 2022}}</ref>

The Dutch classification from the 19th century has since continued in [[Indonesia]] as a catch-all term for indigenous, often non-Muslim tribes on the island until today. The term gained traction in the early 1900s among rising middle class and intellectual figures (such as [[Hausman Baboe]]) from those tribes and being used as a unifying term for Dayaks in Kalimantan.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=van Klinken |first=Gerry |date=2007-11-15 |title=Dayak Ethnogenesis and Conservative Politics in Indonesia's Outer Islands |url=https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=1030241 |language=en |location=Rochester, NY|ssrn=1030241 }}</ref> In [[Malaysia]], the term Dayak generally reserves as an almost exclusively reference to the natives of [[Sarawak]], namely [[Iban people|Iban]] (previously referred as Sea Dayaks) and [[Bidayuh]] (known as Land Dayak in the past).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dayak|author=|date=|title=Dayak|website=Britanicca|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=13 May 2022}}</ref> However, some modern interpretations of the term also include the [[Orang Ulu]] groups in Sarawak.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://minorityrights.org/communities/indigenous-peoples-and-ethnic-minorities-in-sarawak/|title=Indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities in Sarawak in Malaysia|website=Minority Rights Group|access-date=14 January  2025}}</ref>