North Sarawakan languages
| North Sarawakan | |
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| Geographic distribution: | Northern Sarawak, Borneo |
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| Glottolog: | nort3171[1] |
The North Sarawakan languages are a group of Austronesian languages spoken in the northeastern part of the province of Sarawak, Borneo, and proposed in Blust (1991, 2010).
- North Sarawakan languages
- Kenyah
- Kelabitic (Apo Duat)
- Berawan – Lower Baram
- Bintulu
Ethnologue 16 adds Punan Tubu as an additional branch, and notes that Bintulu might be closest to Baram. The Melanau–Kajang languages were removed in Blust 2010.
Footnotes
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "North Sarawakan". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
References
- K. Alexander Adelaar and Nikolaus Himmelmann, The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar. Routledge, 2005.