Asal Nama Pulau Kalimantan

• First.
Borneo from the Sultanate of Brunei Darussalam said that previously a large and wide empire (including Sarawak and Sabah krn most part Sabah belongs to the sultanate of Sulu, Mindanao. The Portuguese traders called Borneo and is used by the Europeans. Inside Kakimpoi Nagarakretagama, written in 1365 ancient kingdom of Brunei called "Barune", so there is also a distinguished call it "Waruna Pura". But the natives call it the Pulo Klemantan.
• Second.
According to the descriptive Crowfurd Dictionary of the Indian Island (1856), said Kalimantan is the name of a type of mango so that the island of Borneo is the island of mango, but he added that it smells of fairy tales and does not popular.
• Third.
According to Drs. B. Ch. Chhabra MBRAS journal vol XV Part 3 p. 79 mentions the ancient Indian custom to name places suitable crops such as millet in Sanskrit language yawa so that the island was called yawadwipa known as the island of Java so that by analogy that the island is by name of Amra-Dwipa Sanskrit or island mango.
• Fourth.
According to the C. Hose and Mac Dougall stated that the word originated from 6 classes Kalimantan local tribes namely Sea Dayak (Iban), Kayan, Kenyan, Klemantan, Munut, and Punan. In the essay, Natural Man, a Record from Borneo (1926), Hose C. explained that Klemantan is the new name used by the Malays.
• Fifth.
According to WH Treacher in British Borneo in the journal MBRAS (1889), wild mango unknown in northern Borneo. Anyway Borneo island has never been known as the yield of mango instead of the title may very well Sago Island (island Sago) because the word was the original name Lamantah raw sago.
• Sixth.
According to Prof. Dr. Slamet Muljana in his book Sriwijaya (LKIS 2006), said not a word of Borneo native Malay tp loanwords as well as the Malay word, which originated from India melayu (Malay which means mountain). Kalimantan or Klemantan derived from Sanskrit, Kalamanthana island where the air is very hot or burn (cal [a]: season, time and Manthan [a]: burn). Because the vowel a at time and manthana according to custom does not spoken, then uttered Kalmantan Kalamanthana later called Klemantan or Quallamontan natives who eventually reduced to Borneo.