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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balian.
ᬩᬮ᭄ᬬᬦ᭄ (balian)
- shaman, (traditional) healer
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*balian”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI