Kedayan language

E141944

The Kedayan language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Kedayan people of Brunei, Sabah, and parts of Borneo, closely related to Malay and other Greater North Borneo languages.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Kedayan language canonical 1
Kendayan language 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (41)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Malayo-Polynesian language
belongsToCountry Brunei Darussalam
Malaysia
closelyRelatedTo Malay language
linked to: Malay
hasAlternativeName Brunei-Kedayan
Kadayan
Kedayan Malay
hasGrammarType SVO word order
hasLanguageCode Linguasphere 31-MFN-bd
hasLexicalSimilarityWith Brunei Malay
linked to: Bruneian Malay

Standard Malay
linked to: Malay
hasLoanwordsFrom Arabic
English
Malay
hasMorphologyType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (in some dialects)
use of glottal stop
hasPronounSystemSimilarTo Malay language
linked to: Malay
hasSociolinguisticSituation bilingualism with Malay
language shift towards Malay in younger generations
hasWritingSystem Latin script
isEndangeredStatus vulnerable
isMutuallyIntelligibleWith Brunei Malay (partially)
linked to: Bruneian Malay
ISO639-3Code kxd
isSpokenByEthnicGroup Kedayan
isUsedByReligionCommunity Muslim Kedayan community
languageBranch Malayo-Polynesian languages
languageFamily Austronesian languages
region Island of Borneo
linked to: Borneo

Southeast Asia
sharesFeatureWith Malayic languages
spokenBy Kedayan people
spokenIn Borneo
Brunei
linked to: Brunei Darussalam

Sabah
spokenInMalaysianState Sabah
Sarawak (minority)
subfamilyOf Greater North Borneo languages
usedInDomain home and community communication
oral tradition

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Malayic languages hasMember Kendayan language
linked to: Kedayan language