Developing a unified orthography for Berawan: An endangered Bornean language

• Main Authors: Burkhardt, Jey Lingam *, Burkhardt, Jurgen Martin
• Format: Article
• Published: John Benjamins Publishing 2020
• Subjects: P Philology. Linguistics
• Online Access: http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/1269/; http://doi.org/10.1075/wll.00029.bur
• Institution: Sunway University

Berawan is a small ethnic community, numbering fewer than 4,000 members, in the Malaysian state of Sarawak on Borneo Island. There are four language varieties; namely, Long Jegan (LJG), Batu Belah (BB), Long Teru (LTU) and Long Terawan (LTN). This paper describes the development of the preliminary u...