Abai language explained

Abai
Also Known As:Abai Tubu–Abai Sembuak
States:Indonesia
Region:Borneo
Speakers:?
Familycolor:Austronesian
Fam2:Malayo-Polynesian
Fam3:North Bornean
Fam4:Southwest Sabahan
Fam5:Murutic
Iso3:none
Glotto:abai1241
Glottorefname:Abai Tubu–Abai Sembuak

Abai is a Murutic language of Borneo spoken in by the Abai people in the villages of Sembuak and Tubu. Ethnologue mistakenly classifies it as a dialect of Putoh.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Lobel . Jason William . 2013 . Southwest sabah revisited . dead . Oceanic Linguistics . 52 . 1 . 36–68 . 43286760 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150226063415/http://jasonlobel.com/52-1-Lobel-SouthwestSabahRevisited-OLJune2013-36to68.pdf . 2015-02-26.