Ida'an language

Ida’an
Native to	Malaysia
Region	Lahad Datu, Kinabatangan, and Sandakan districts of Sabah
Native speakers	10,000 (2013)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian North Bornean Northeast Sabahan Ida’an
Language codes
ISO 639-3	dbj
Glottolog	idaa1241[2]

The Ida'an (also Idahan) language is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by the Ida'an people of Sabah, Malaysia.

Begak dialect is threatened with extinction, as younger speakers are switching to Malay.

Phonology

Collection of words in English and translation in Ida'an, Bisaya and Adang Murut (Lun Bawang) in 1860 by Spencer St.John.

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
High	i		u
Mid	e	ə	o
Low		a

Consonants

		Bilabial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Stop	Voiceless	p	t		k	ʔ
	Voiced	b	d		a
Affricate	Voiceless			tʃ
	Voiced			dʒ
Fricative			s
Nasal		m	n		ŋ
Lateral			l
Trill			r
Semivowel		w		j

References

1. Ida’an at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Ida'an". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

• Goudswaard, Nelleke Elisabeth (2005). The Begak (Ida'an) Language of Sabah. Utrecht Institute of Linguistics / LOT Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistic. ISBN 90-76864-73-X.