Dusunic languages

The Dusunic languages are a group of languages spoken by the Bisaya, Dusun, Kadazan, Rungus, and related peoples in the Malaysian province of Sabah on Borneo.

Dusunic
Dusun-Bisaya
Geographic
distribution
Sabah
Linguistic classificationAustronesian
Subdivisions
  • Bisaya–Lotud
  • Dusun
GlottologNone
dusu1277  (Dusunic)[1]
bisa1270  (Bisaya–Lotud)[2]

Languages

The Dusunic languages are classified as follows.[3]

Dumpas may also belong here.

Not all languages spoken by the Dusun people belong to this group; the East Barito languages include several which are also named 'Dusun'.

Lobel (2016)

Lobel (2016) covers the following Dusunic languages:

  • Rungus
  • Kadazan Papar
  • Kadazan Kimanis
  • Kadazan Membakut
  • Dusun Tambunan
  • Kujau
  • Minokok
  • Sungai Kinabatangan
  • Dusun Talantang
  • Dusun Tobilung
  • Dusun Liwan
  • Dusun Bundu
  • Dumpas

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Dusunic". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Bisaya–Lotud". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Bonggi language has been removed per Adelaar & Himmelmann, The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar. Routledge, 2005, and Gana' per Glottolog.
  • King, Julie K., and John Wayne King. 1984. Languages of Sabah: A survey report. C-78. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University.
  • Lobel, Jason William. 2016. North Borneo Sourcebook: Vocabularies and Functors. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 9780824857790


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