Tutong language
| Tutong | |
|---|---|
| Tutong 2 | |
| Region | Brunei |
Native speakers | 17,000 (2006)[1] |
Austronesian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ttg |
| Glottolog | tuto1241 |
The Tutong language, also known as Tutong 2, is a language spoken by 16,600 people in Brunei. It is the main language of the Tutong people, the majority ethnic group in the Tutong District of Brunei.
Classification
Tutong is an Austronesian language and belongs to the Rejang-Baram group of languages spoken in Brunei as well as Kalimantan, Indonesia, and Sarawak, Malaysia.[2] Tutong is related to the Belait language and roughly 54% of the words come from a common root.[3]
Language Use
Today, many speakers of Tutong are shifting away from the traditional language and code-mix or code-shift with Standard Malay and English.[4]
- ^ Tutong at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ "Whiter the Indigenous Languages of Brunei Darussalam?". Oceanic Linguistics. 34.
- ^ Nothofer, Bernd. 1991 . The languages of Brunei Darussalam. In H. Steinhauer (ed.) Papers in Austronesian Linguistics. Pacific Linguistics A-81:1
- ^ Clynes, Adrian. "Dominant Language Transfer in Minority Language Documentation Projects: Some Examples from Brunei". Language Documentation and Conservation. 6.