Sesayap Tidung

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Sesayap Tidong
Northern Tidung
Native to Malaysia
Region Borneo
Ethnicity Tidung people
Native speakers
Perhaps 20,000, including the Nonukan Tidong spoken in Malaysia (2000) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ntd
Glottolog nort3262

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.

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References

  1. Tidong at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)