Nunukan Tidung Explained

Nunukan Tidong
Also Known As:Southern Tidung
States:Indonesia, Malaysia
Region:Borneo
Ethnicity:Tidung people
Speakers:27,000 in Indonesia
Date:2007
Speakers2:Unknown number across the bay in Sabah
Familycolor:Austronesian
Fam2:Malayo-Polynesian
Fam3:North Bornean
Fam4:Southwest Sabahan
Fam5:Murutic
Fam6:Southern
Iso3:itd
Glotto:sout3241
Glottorefname:Southern Tidung

Nunukan Tidong or Southern Tidung, is one of several Sabahan languages of Kalimantan, Indonesia, spoken by the Tidong people. It has lost the system of Austronesian alignment retained by Northern Tidung in Sabah, Malaysia.

Phonology

!Labial!Alveolar!Palatal!Velar!Glottal
Plosive/
Affricate
voicelessptk(ʔ)
voicedbdɡ
Fricatives
Nasalmnɲŋ
Rhoticr
Laterall
Approximantwj
Vowels!!Front!Central!Back
Highiu
Midə
Lowa

Notes and References

  1. Book: Darmansyah . Struktur Bahasa Tidung . Jakarta: Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan . 1981.