Tutong (language)

Tutong
Spoken in	Tutong District and Belait District , Brunei
speaker	17000 (2006)
Linguistic ; classification	Austronesian Malayo Polynesian North Borneo North Sarawak; ; ; Tutong (language) ;
Language codes
ISO 639 -1	-
ISO 639 -2	-
ISO 639-3	daily

Tutong (also Tutong 2 ) is a language spoken by 17,000 people in Brunei . It is the main language of the Tutong people, who mainly live in the Tutong district .

classification

Tutong is an Austronesian language that belongs to the Rejang-Baram group of northern Sarawak languages.

Tutong is related to the Belait language: around 54% of all words have the same origin.

distribution

The language is largely spoken in the Tutong District, especially around the city of Tutong . There are also spokesperson communities in the Belait district .

threat

The language is at risk as many speakers switch from traditional languages to other languages such as Malay , Bruneian Malay, or English , or mix them together.

Nonetheless, there is an interest in reviving language. Since 2012 there has been a module in Tutong at the Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD). In 1991, the Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka , the Bruneiische Sprachinstitut, published a Tutong-Malay dictionary and a Malay-Tutong dictionary as well as a word list of several languages in Brunei in 2011.

Examples

Probably the closest related language is Belait with a lexical similarity of 54%.

Using the example of Indonesian , however, the lexical similarity to other Malayo-Polynesian languages can also be seen:

Examples
German	Tutong	Indonesian
me myself	aiso	saya
you	jiyu	anda
we	jami	kami
her	jimu	kamu
monkey	kuyad	monyet
dog	awuh	anjing
cat	ucing	kucing
pig	bawui	babi
bird	manuk	burung
duck	itik	itik
Day	alu	hati
tomorrow	sambut	pagi
afternoon	sarepot	sore
Evening night	lema	malam
That / this	ituh / ina	itu / ina
No	endo	tidak
Yes	ouch	ya

Individual evidence

^ Tutong at Ethnologue
↑ Nothofer, Bernd. 1991. The languages of Brunei Darussalam. In H. Steinhauer (ed.) Papers in Austronesian Linguistics . Pacific Linguistics A-81: 1
^ Adrian Clynes: Dominant Language Transfer in Minority Language Documentation Projects: Some Examples from Brunei . In: Language Documentation and Conservation . September 6th.

[1] Tutong at Ethnologue

[2] Nothofer, Bernd. 1991. The languages of Brunei Darussalam. In H. Steinhauer (ed.) Papers in Austronesian Linguistics . Pacific Linguistics A-81: 1

[3] Adrian Clynes: Dominant Language Transfer in Minority Language Documentation Projects: Some Examples from Brunei . In: Language Documentation and Conservation . September 6th.