Eastern Kadazan language
{{short description|Austronesian language spoken in Sabah, Malaysia}}
{{Infobox language
| name = Eastern Kadazan
| altname = Labuk-Kinabatangan Kadazan
| states = Malaysia
| region = Sabah
| ethnicity =
| speakers = 20,600 (2000){{e18|dtb}} (only 5% of children learn it)
| familycolor = Austronesian
| fam2 = Malayo-Polynesian
| fam3 = North Bornean
| fam4 = Southwest Sabahan
| fam5 = Dusunic
| fam6 = Dusun
| iso3 = dtb
| glotto = labu1249
| glottorefname = Labuk-Kinabatangan Kadazan
| script = Latin
}}
Eastern Kadazan, also known as Labuk Kadazan, Kinabatangan Kadazan, or Sungai, is an Austronesian language primarily spoken in Sabah, Malaysia.
Phonology
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|+Consonants ! colspan="2" | |
| colspan="2" |Nasal
|{{IPAlink|m}} |{{IPAlink|n}} | |{{IPAlink|ŋ}} | |
|---|
| rowspan="2" |Plosive
!voiceless |{{IPAlink|p}} |{{IPAlink|t}} | |{{IPAlink|k}} |({{IPA link|ʔ}}) |
| voiced
|{{IPAlink|b}} |{{IPAlink|d}} | rowspan="2" |{{IPA link|dʒ}} ~ {{IPA link|ʒ}} |{{IPAlink|ɡ}} | |
| colspan="2" |Fricative
|{{IPA link|β}} |{{IPAlink|s}} | | |
| colspan="2" |Approximant
|{{IPA link|w}} |{{IPAlink|l}}, {{IPA link|ɫ}} |{{IPAlink|j}} | | |
| colspan="2" |Rhotic
| |{{IPAlink|r}} | | | |
/dʒ/ may also range to a fricative [ʒ] among speakers.
The glottal stop /ʔ/ only appears in a few words.
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|+Vowels ! !Back |
| Close
|{{IPAlink|i}} | |{{IPAlink|u}} |
|---|
| Mid
| | colspan="2" |{{IPA link|ə}} ~ {{IPA link|o}} |
| Open
| |{{IPAlink|a}} | |
/ə/ may also range to [o].Hurlbut (1988)
References
{{Reflist}}
Further reading
- {{Cite book |last=Hurlbut |first=Hope M. |url=https://archive.org/details/verbmorphologyin0097hurl |title=Verb Morphology in Eastern Kadazan |date=1988 |publisher=The Australian National University |isbn=978-0-85883-347-0 |series=Pacific Linguistics Series B - No. 97 |location=Canberra |doi=10.15144/PL-B97 |hdl=1885/145419 |hdl-access=free |doi-access=free |url-access=registration }}
{{Languages of Malaysia}}
{{Bornean languages}}
{{Greater North Borneo languages}}
Category:Languages of Malaysia
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