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Day·ak | \ ˈdī-ˌak 
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\variants:
or less commonly Dyak
plural Dayaks or Dayak also Dyaks or Dyak
Definition of Dayak
: a member of any of several Indonesian peoples of the interior of Borneo
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The first known use of Dayak was in 1836
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