Dusunic languages

Language group
Dusunic
Dusun-Bisaya
Geographic
distribution		Sabah
Linguistic classificationAustronesian
  • Malayo-Polynesian
    • North Bornean
      • Southwest Sabahan
        • Dusunic
Subdivisions
  • Bisaya–Lotud
  • Dusun
Glottologdusu1277  (Dusunic)
bisa1270  (Bisaya–Lotud)

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

Languages

The Dusunic languages are classified as follows.[1]

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
  • Kujau
  • Minokok
  • Sungai Kinabatangan
  • Dusun Talantang
  • Dusun Tambunan
  • Dusun Tobilung
  • Dusun Liwan
  • Dusun Bundu
  • Dumpas

References

  1. ^ 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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North Borneo *
Northeast Sabah *
Southwest Sabah *
Greater
Dusunic *
Bisaya–Lotud
Dusunic
Paitanic
Greater
Murutic *
Murutic
North Sarawak *
Central Sarawak
Kayanic
Land Dayak
Malayo–Chamic *
Aceh–Chamic
Iban–Malayan
Ibanic
Sundanese
Rejang ?
  • Rejang
Moklenic ?
  • * indicates proposed status
  • ? indicates classification dispute
  • † indicates extinct status


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