Sesayap Tidung Explained

Sesayap Tidong
Nativename:Northern Tidung
States:Malaysia
Region:Borneo
Ethnicity:Tidung people
Speakers:Perhaps 20,000, including the Nonukan Tidong spoken in Malaysia
Date:2000
Familycolor:Austronesian
Fam2:Malayo-Polynesian
Fam3:North Bornean
Fam4:Southwest Sabahan
Fam5:Murutic
Fam6:Northern
Iso3:ntd
Glotto:nort3262
Glottorefname:Northern Tidung

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.