The North Sarawakan languages are a group of
Austronesian languages spoken in the northeastern part of the province of
Sarawak,
Borneo, and proposed in Blust (1991, 2010).
Ethnologue 16 adds
Punan Tubu as an additional branch, and notes that Bintulu might be closest to Baram. The
Melanau–Kajang languages were removed in Blust 2010.
The Northern Sarawak languages are well known for strange phonological histories.[1]
Classification
Smith (2017)[2] classifies the North Sarawakan languages as follows.