Narom language

Narom
	Bhasa Narom
Region	Sarawak, Malaysia.
Ethnicity	4,000 (2012)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian North Bornean North Sarawakan Berawan–Lower Baram Lower Baram Lelak–Narom Narom; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Bakong; Daliʼ; Miriʼ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	nrm
Glottolog	naro1251

Narom language (sometimes spelled Narum) is a Malayo-Polynesian language of the Lower Baram branch. It is spoken by some 2,420[2] Narom people in Sarawak, Malaysia, and particularly in the Miri Division and the area south of Baram River mouth, and maybe in Indonesia border areas with Malaysia. The language has three dialects, Bakong, Daliʼ and Miriʼ.

References

Narom language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Wurm, Stephen A. and Shiro Hattori (eds.) (1981). Language Atlas of the Pacific Area. Australian Academy of the Humanities in collaboration with the Japan Academy, Canberra, ISBN 0-85883-239-9

External links

Kaipuleohone has archived materials that include Miri kin terms and other written materials
Kaipuleohone has also archived Narom audio recordings and fieldnotes of basic linguistic features in Narom

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[1] Narom language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[2] Wurm, Stephen A. and Shiro Hattori (eds.) (1981). Language Atlas of the Pacific Area. Australian Academy of the Humanities in collaboration with the Japan Academy, Canberra, ISBN 0-85883-239-9