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Sajau
Sajau
Sajau Basap, Sajau-Latti
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Borneo
Native speakers	(6,000 cited 1981)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Greater North Borneo Central Sarawak Punan–Müller Schwaner Punan Sajau; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Punan Sajau; Punan Basap; Punan Batu; Latti;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	sjb
Glottolog	saja1241 Sajau-Latti; lata1235 Latala

Sajau, Sajau Basap, or Sajau-Latti is an Austronesian language spoken by the Punan Sajau and Punan Basap people of Borneo in Indonesia.

The Punan Sajau preserve a song language known as Basa Latala.^[2]

References

↑ Sajau at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
↑ Blevins, Juliette; Kaufman, Daniel (June 2024). "Austronesian Lexemes in Basa Latala of Borneo: A Punan Sajau Song Language". Oceanic Linguistics. 63 (1): 182–201. doi:10.1353/ol.2024.a928207. ISSN 1527-9421.