Sesayap Tidong or Northern Tidung is one of several Sabahan languages of Sabah, Malaysia, spoken by the Tidong people. It retains the system of Austronesian alignment that has been lost by Southern Tidung in Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Sesayap Tidong | |
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Northern Tidung | |
Native to | Malaysia |
Region | Borneo |
Ethnicity | Tidung people |
Native speakers | Perhaps 20,000, including the Nonukan Tidong spoken in Malaysia (2000)[1] |
Austronesian
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | ntd |
Glottolog | nort3262 |
References
edit- ^ Tidong at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)