Eastern Kadazan language

Eastern Kadazan
Labuk-Kinabatangan Kadazan
Native to	Malaysia
Region	Sabah
Ethnicity	20,600 (2000) [1]
Native speakers	(only 5% of children learn it)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian North Bornean Southwest Sabahan Dusunic Dusun Eastern Kadazan
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	dtb
Glottolog	labu1249

Eastern Kadazan, also known as Labuk Kadazan, Kinabatangan Kadazan, or Sungai, is an Austronesian language primarily spoken in Sabah, Malaysia.

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n		ŋ
Plosive	voiceless	p	t		k	( ʔ )
	voiced	b	d	dʒ ~ ʒ	ɡ
Fricative		β	s
Approximant		w	l , ɫ	j
Rhotic			r

/dʒ/ may also range to a fricative [ʒ] among speakers.

The glottal stop /ʔ/ only appears in a few words.

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid		ə ~ o
Open		a

/ə/ may also range to [o]. ^[2]

References

1. Eastern Kadazan language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Hurlbut (1988)

Further reading

• Hurlbut, Hope M. (1988). Verb Morphology in Eastern Kadazan . Pacific Linguistics Series B - No. 97. Canberra: The Australian National University. doi: 10.15144/PL-B97 . hdl: 1885/145419 . ISBN   978-0-85883-347-0.