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Subgroup of the Austronesian language family From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 | |
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Geographic distribution | Northern Sarawak, Borneo |
Linguistic classification | Austronesian
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Subdivisions | |
Glottolog | nort3171 |
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.
The Northern Sarawak languages are well known for strange phonological histories.[1]
Smith (2017)[2] classifies the North Sarawakan languages as follows.
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