Wikipedia:
Ida'an language
| Ida'an | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | Malaysia | |
| Region: | Lahad Datu, Kinabatangan, and Sandakan districts of Sabah | |
| Total speakers: | ~6,000 | |
| Language family: | Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Borneo-Philippines Sabahan Ida'an |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | map | |
| ISO 639-3: | dbj | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
The Ida'an (also Idahan) language is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by the Ida'an people of Sabah, Malaysia.
Begak is threatened with extinction, as younger speakers are switching to Malay.
Phonology
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | u | |
| Mid | e | ə | o |
| Low | a |
Consonants
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | Voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
| Voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||
| Affricate | Voiceless | tʃ | ||||
| Voiced | dʒ | |||||
| Fricative | s | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Trill | r | |||||
| Semivowel | w | j | ||||
References
- Goudswaard, Nelleke Elisabeth (2005). The Begak (Ida'an) Language of Sabah. Utrecht Institute of Linguistics / LOT Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistic. ISBN 90-76864-73-X.
External links
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