Lun Bawang language
Lun Bawang or Lundayeh is the language spoken by the Lun Bawangs in northern Borneo. It belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian family.
Putoh is an alternate name in North Kalimantan.
History
Lun Bawang is mainly an oral language. There is very little printed written material in this language that was not written by missionaries or linguists. The first published material written fully in Lun Bawang is a translation of the Bible from 1982, which is called Bala Luk Do. A Lun Bawang–English dictionary was constructed in 1969 by the University of Washington. A dialect of the Lun Bawang language, Kemaloh Lundayeh, was compiled in 2006 into a bilingual dictionary of Lundayeh and English.Phonology
There are 6 vowels, 19 consonants and 5 diphthongs in the Lun Bawang language.According to Blust, Lun Dayeh has a series of mixed-voiced stops,, similar to those of Kelabit, but does not have a simple.
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
| Close | i | u | |
| Mid | e, | e | o, |
| Open | a |
| Orthography | IPA |
| ai | |
| au | |
| ia | |
| ou | |
| ui, oi |