Tombonuwo language
Austronesian language spoken in Sabah, Malaysia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Austronesian language spoken in Sabah, Malaysia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tombonuwo (Tambonuo) is a Paitanic language spoken in the Pitas and Labuk-Sugut Districts of northwest Sabah, Malaysia.[2][3]
The phonemes /p, t, k, s, ʔ/ are voiceless. All other expressions are voiced.
/o/ is often pronounced as unrounded [ʌ].
/a/ is neutralized to [ʌ] in a pre-stressed syllable.
Sabahan languages are characterized by "focus" morphology, which marks a syntactic relationship between the predicate of a clause and the "focused" noun phrase of the clause[5] (see Austronesian alignment).
Tombonuwo has four focus categories, conventionally labelled "actor", "patient", "referent" and "theme".[6] Focus is marked by affixation on the verb.
The only marked tense in Tombonuwo is past tense.
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