Tutong (language)
Tutong | ||
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Spoken in |
Tutong District and Belait District , Brunei | |
speaker | 17000 (2006) | |
Linguistic classification |
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Language codes | ||
ISO 639 -1 |
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ISO 639 -2 |
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ISO 639-3 |
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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:
German | Tutong | Indonesian |
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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.