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.
| Nunukan Tidong | |
|---|---|
| Southern Tidung | |
| Native to | Indonesia, Malaysia |
| Region | Borneo |
| Ethnicity | Tidung people |
Native speakers | 27,000 in Indonesia (2007)[1] Unknown number across the bay in Sabah |
Austronesian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | itd |
| Glottolog | sout3241 |
Phonology
edit| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive/ Affricate |
voiceless | p | t | k | (ʔ) | |
| voiced | b | d | dʒ | ɡ | ||
| Fricative | s | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
| Rhotic | r | |||||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||
- [ʔ] may also occur, but only phonetically before initial vowels.
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | u | |
| Mid | ə | ||
| Low | a |
- [e] and [o] may also occur, but only in complimentary distribution with /i/ and /u/.[2]
References
edit- ^ Tidong at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Darmansyah (1981). Struktur Bahasa Tidung. Jakarta: Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan.
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