Bukar-Sadong Bidayuh

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Bukar-Sadong Bidayuh is an Austronesian language spoken by a subgroup of the Bidayuh people of Borneo, particularly in parts of Sarawak, Malaysia.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Bidayuh language
natural language
belongsToBranch Malayo-Polynesian branch of Austronesian
continent Asia
country Malaysia
ethnicGroup Bidayuh NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Bukar-Sadong NERFINISHED
Bukit Sadong Bidayuh NERFINISHED
Sadong Bidayuh NERFINISHED
hasDomainOfUse home and community domains
ritual and ceremonial contexts
hasEndangermentStatus vulnerable (needs language maintenance)
hasGlottocode buka1253
hasISO639-3Code sdo
hasLanguageStatus minority language in Malaysia
hasLinguisticTypology predominantly analytic language
hasMorphologicalFeature affixation for derivation
hasNeighboringLanguages Iban language NERFINISHED
Malay language NERFINISHED
other Bidayuh languages
hasOralTradition traditional songs and folktales of the Bukar-Sadong Bidayuh people
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory typical of Bornean Austronesian languages
hasSociolinguisticContext many speakers are bilingual in Malay
younger generations increasingly shift to Malay and English
hasWordOrder SVO (subject–verb–object)
isPartOf Bidayuh linguistic group
isRelatedTo other Bidayuh dialects and languages of Sarawak
isSubjectOf linguistic documentation projects on Bidayuh languages
languageFamily Austronesian languages
primaryUsage daily communication within Bukar-Sadong Bidayuh communities
region parts of Sarawak
spokenBy Bidayuh people NERFINISHED
Bukar-Sadong subgroup of the Bidayuh people
spokenIn Borneo NERFINISHED
Malaysia NERFINISHED
Sarawak NERFINISHED
subfamily Bidayuh languages NERFINISHED
usedIn traditional cultural practices of the Bukar-Sadong Bidayuh people
usedInEducation occasionally used in informal community-based education
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Bidayuh hasLanguage Bukar-Sadong Bidayuh
Bidayuh people language Bukar-Sadong Bidayuh