Dayak or Daya (old spelling: Dajak or Dyak is a sub-ethnic federation of the various Austronesian settlers awa regarded as inhabiting the island of Borneo (Brunei, Malaysia consisting of Sabah and Sarawak, as well as Indonesia, which consists of West Kalimantan, East Kalimantan, Borneo Central, and South Kalimantan). Culture is the Dayak Cultural Maritime or marine. Almost all the proper name of the Dayak people have the meanings as something related to "perhuluan" or the river, especially on family names. Dayak ethnic group consists of Stanmenras six clumps or clumps which Klemantan aka Borneo, Iban clump, clump Apokayan the Dayak Kayan, Kenyah and Bahau, Murut clump, clump Ot Danum-Punan Ngaju and clumps.
About the origins of the Dayak, a lot of accepted theory is the theory of Chinese immigration from Yunnan Province in Southern China. Yunan population immigrated massive (in small groups) was estimated in 3000-1500 BC (BC). Dayak tribes had built an empire.