Kedayan Malay

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Kedayan Malay is an Austronesian language variety spoken primarily by the Kedayan people in Brunei, Sabah, and parts of Borneo, closely related to Brunei Malay.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Kedayan Malay canonical 3
Brunei-Kedayan Malay 1
Kadayan Malay 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Malayic language
language variety
associatedWithReligion Islam
belongsToEthnolinguisticGroup Kedayan
closelyRelatedTo Brunei Malay
linked to: Bruneian Malay
countryOfPrimaryUse Brunei
linked to: Brunei Darussalam
countryOfUse Indonesia
Malaysia
ethnicLanguageOf Kedayan people
geographicDistribution coastal northern Borneo
interior regions of Sabah
rural areas of Brunei
hasAlternativeName Brunei-Kedayan Malay
linked to: Kedayan Malay

Kadayan Malay
linked to: Kedayan Malay

Kedayan
hasCodeStatus not standardized
hasCulturalRoleIn Kedayan oral literature
Kedayan traditional ceremonies
hasDialectContinuumWith Brunei Malay
linked to: Bruneian Malay
hasEndangermentStatus vulnerable
hasPhonologicalSimilarityWith Brunei Malay
linked to: Bruneian Malay
hasStatus minority language
hasSVOOrder true
hasWritingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet
isOralDominant true
languageFamily Austronesian languages
languageGroup Malayic languages
languageSubfamily Malayo-Polynesian languages
region Northern Borneo
linked to: northern Borneo
sharesLexiconWith Brunei Malay
linked to: Bruneian Malay

Standard Malay
linked to: Malay
sharesMorphosyntaxWith Malayic languages
spokenBy Kedayan people
spokenIn Borneo
Brunei
linked to: Brunei Darussalam

Indonesia
Malaysia
Sabah
subclassOf Malay language
linked to: Malay
usedAlongside Brunei Malay
linked to: Bruneian Malay

Standard Malay
usedFor daily communication
oral tradition

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

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

Kedayan language hasAlternativeName Kedayan Malay
Kedayan Malay hasAlternativeName Kadayan Malay
linked to: Kedayan Malay
Kedayan Malay hasAlternativeName Brunei-Kedayan Malay
linked to: Kedayan Malay
Kedayan hasAlternativeName Kedayan Malay
Brunei-Kedayan hasAlternativeName Kedayan Malay