Major General James G. Blunt

Nunukan Tidong or Southern Tidung, is one of several Sabahan languages of Kalimantan, Indonesia, spoken by the Tidong people. It has lost the system of Austronesian alignment retained by Northern Tidung in Sabah, Malaysia.

Phonology

Consonants
Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Plosive/
Affricate
voiceless p t k (ʔ)
voiced b d ɡ
Fricative s
Nasal m n ɲ ŋ
Rhotic r
Lateral l
Approximant w j
  • [ʔ] may also occur, but only phonetically before initial vowels.
Vowels
Front Central Back
High i u
Mid ə
Low a
  • [e] and [o] may also occur, but only in complimentary distribution with /i/ and /u/.[2]

References

  1. ^ Tidong at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Darmansyah (1981). Struktur Bahasa Tidung. Jakarta: Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan.