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Sesayap Tidong language

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Native to
  
Malaysia

Ethnicity
  
Tidung people

Region
  
Borneo

ISO 639-3
  
ntd

Native speakers
  
Perhaps 20,000, including the Nonukan Tidong spoken in Malaysia (2000)

Language family
  
Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian North Bornean Southwest Sabahan Murutic Northern Sesayap Tidong

Sesayap Tidong, or Northern Tidung, is one of several Sabahan language of Sabah spoken by the Tidong people. It retains the system of Austronesian alignment that has been lost by Southern Tidung in Kalimantan.

References

Sesayap Tidong language Wikipedia