North Borneo sourcebook. Vocabularies and functors
By: Jason William Lobel
Series: PALI Language Texts-Southeast Asia, Pacific and Asian Linguistics Center, University of Hawai'i; PALI Language Texts-Southeast Asia, Pacific and Asian Linguistics Center, University of Hawai'i
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780824857790
Description: North Borneo Sourcebook' seeks to address the lack of available data for the languages of northern Borneo, where forty to fifty distinct languages are spoken in the Malaysian state of Sabah alone. While members of the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) have worked in Sabah for several decades and have published articles on individual languages, until now no comprehensive survey of the languages of Sabah had yet been done. In addition to the languages native to Sabah, also included in this monograph are closely related Southwest Sabah languages spoken in neighboring parts of the Malaysian state of Sarawak, the Indonesian province of Kalimantan Utara, and Brunei Darussalam. The author has included 594 entries with equivalents in each of the forty-six languages that represent the linguistic variation in north Borneo, along with introductory sections listing the personal pronouns, demonstrative pronouns, and case markers for each language.