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
surface form: Malay language
hasAlternativeName Brunei-Kedayan
Kadayan
Kedayan Malay
hasGrammarType SVO word order
hasLanguageCode Linguasphere 31-MFN-bd
hasLexicalSimilarityWith Bruneian Malay
surface form: Brunei Malay

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

Southeast Asia
sharesFeatureWith Malayic languages
spokenBy Kedayan people
spokenIn Borneo
Brunei Darussalam
surface form: Brunei

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 Kedayan language
this entity surface form: Kendayan language