Publication

2016 - University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, Hawaii

Language

English

Word Count

71,500 words, Guess

Page Count

286 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC950
  • LCCDS31-35.2
  • LCCPL5026 .L63 2016
and 1 more
  • LCCPL5026.L63 2016

Description

North Borneo Sourcebook' seeks to address the lack of available data for the languages of northern Borneo, where forty to fifty distinct languages are spoken in the Malaysian state of Sabah alone. While members of the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) have worked in Sabah for several decades and have published articles on individual languages, until now no comprehensive survey of the languages of Sabah had yet been done. In addition to the languages native to Sabah, also included in this monograph are closely related Southwest Sabah languages spoken in neighboring parts of the Malaysian state of Sarawak, the Indonesian province of Kalimantan Utara, and Brunei Darussalam. The author has included 594 entries with equivalents in each of the forty-six languages that represent the linguistic variation in north Borneo, along with introductory sections listing the personal pronouns, demonstrative pronouns, and case markers for each language.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • PALI Language Texts-Southeast Asia, Pacific and Asian Linguistics Center, University of Hawai'i

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