Lun Bawang language

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The Lun Bawang language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Lun Bawang people of northern Borneo, primarily in parts of Malaysia and Indonesia.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Lun Bawang language canonical 8

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
natural language
alternativeName Lun Bawang-Lundayeh
linked to: Lun Bawang

Lun Daye
linked to: Lun Dayeh

Lun Dayeh
Lundayeh
basicWordOrder SVO
closelyRelatedTo Kelabit language
Sa’ban language
countryOfficialLanguageStatus not an official national language
endangermentStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Lun Bawang people
family Austronesian
glottologCode lund1265
glottologName Lun Bawang-Lundayeh
linked to: Lun Bawang
hasDialects Lun Bawang (Sarawak) dialects
Lundayeh (North Kalimantan) dialects
Lundayeh (Sabah) dialects
hasLiterature folk stories and oral literature (some transcribed)
religious texts
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (in some analyses)
rich consonant inventory typical of Bornean languages
hasStandardizationEffort community-based orthography development
ISO639-3 lnd
languageCodeType ISO 639-3
linguisticArea Bornean languages
regionCountry North Kalimantan, Indonesia
linked to: North Kalimantan

Sabah, Malaysia
linked to: Sabah

Sarawak, Malaysia
linked to: Sarawak

Temburong District, Brunei
spokenIn Borneo
Brunei
linked to: Brunei Darussalam

Indonesia
Malaysia
spokenInRegion North Kalimantan
Sabah
Sarawak
northern Borneo
status minority language
subfamily Malayo-Polynesian
subgroup Apo Duat
North Bornean
South Sarawak
usedByReligion Christian communities
usedFor daily communication
oral tradition
religious activities
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Bornean languages includesLanguage Lun Bawang language
Murut people traditionalLanguage Lun Bawang language
Lun Bawang language Lun Bawang language
Murut speaks Lun Bawang language
Murutic languages hasPart Lun Bawang language
Lundayeh language alternateName Lun Bawang language
Lun Bawang people language Lun Bawang language
Kelabit language closelyRelatedTo Lun Bawang language