Temuan language
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| Temuan Temuan, Benua, bual Mutan, Niap |
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| Spoken in: | Malaysia | |
| Region: | central and southern Peninsular Malaysia | |
| Total speakers: | 9,312 (1981 Wurm and Hattori) | |
| Language family: | Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (MP) Nuclear MP Sunda-Sulawesi Malayic Malayan Aboriginal Malay[1] Temuan |
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| Writing system: | Latin alphabet | |
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| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | – | |
| ISO 639-3: | tmw | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
The Temuan language (Temuan, Benua, bual Mutan, Niap, Malay: bahasa Temuan) is an Austronesian language spoken by the Temuan tribe, one of the indigenous ethnic groups of Peninsular Malaysia in the states of Selangor, Pahang, Johor, and Negeri Sembilan. It has a certain degree of mutual intelligibility with the Malay language.
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[edit] External Links
- Temuan Web Page Orang Asli Temuan Webpage
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