West Coast Bajau

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West Coast Bajau is an Austronesian language spoken by the Bajau people of the western coast of Sabah, Malaysia, and nearby regions.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
West Coast Bajau canonical 7
West Coast Bajau people 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ
Sama–Bajaw language ⓘ
alternativeName Bajau Kota Belud ⓘ
linked to: Sama Kota Belud

Bajau Sama ⓘ
linked to: Sama-Bajau peoples

Bajau West Coast ⓘ
Sama Kota Belud ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Pangutaran Sama ⓘ
Sama language ⓘ
country Brunei (migrant communities) ⓘ
Malaysia ⓘ
endangeredStatus vulnerable ⓘ
ethnicGroup West Coast Bajau people ⓘ
linked to: West Coast Bajau
glottologCode west2554 ⓘ
glottologName West Coast Bajau ⓘ
hasBasicWordOrder VOS ⓘ
VSO ⓘ
hasDialect Kota Belud Bajau ⓘ
linked to: Sama Kota Belud

Kota Marudu Bajau ⓘ
linked to: Kota Marudu

Tuaran Bajau ⓘ
linked to: Bajau West Coast
hasGrammarDescriptionBy Jeffrey L. Miller ⓘ
hasMorphologyType moderately agglutinative ⓘ
hasPhonologyStudyBy Jason William Lobel ⓘ
hasPronounSystem Austronesian-type pronominal system ⓘ
iso639-3Code bdr ⓘ
isPartOf Sama–Bajaw dialect continuum ⓘ
languageFamily Austronesian ⓘ
linguisticArea Sabah languages ⓘ
region Kota Belud ⓘ
Kota Marudu ⓘ
Tuaran ⓘ
northwestern Borneo ⓘ
western Sabah ⓘ
spokenAlong west coast of Sabah ⓘ
spokenBy Bajau people ⓘ
linked to: Sama-Bajau peoples
spokenIn Borneo ⓘ
Malaysia ⓘ
Sabah ⓘ
subfamily Malayo-Polynesian ⓘ
subgroup Sama–Bajaw ⓘ
typologicalFeature Austronesian alignment features ⓘ
verb-initial word order tendency ⓘ
usedBy sea-nomadic communities ⓘ
usedIn daily communication among Bajau communities ⓘ
oral tradition of Bajau people ⓘ
writingSystem Latin script ⓘ
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (8)

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

Bajau language → hasDialect → West Coast Bajau ⓘ
West Coast Bajau → ethnicGroup → West Coast Bajau people ⓘ
linked to: West Coast Bajau
West Coast Bajau → glottologName → West Coast Bajau ⓘ
Sama Kota Belud → subgroupOf → West Coast Bajau ⓘ
Sama–Bajaw → notableSubgroup → West Coast Bajau ⓘ
Jeffrey L. Miller → languageStudied → West Coast Bajau ⓘ
East Coast Bajau → relatedEthnicGroup → West Coast Bajau ⓘ