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Nunukan Tidong
Southern Tidung
Native to	Indonesia, Malaysia
Region	Borneo
Ethnicity	Tidung people
Native speakers	27,000 in Indonesia (2007) Unknown number across the bay in Sabah
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian North Bornean Southwest Sabahan Murutic Southern Nunukan Tidong
Language codes
ISO 639-3	itd
Glottolog	sout3241

Nunukan Tidong or Southern Tidung, is one of several Sabahan languages of Kalimantan, Indonesia, spoken by the Tidong people. It has lost the system of Austronesian alignment retained by Northern Tidung in Sabah, Malaysia.

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive/ Affricate	voiceless	p	t		k	(ʔ)
	voiced	b	d	dʒ	ɡ
Fricative			s
Nasal		m	n	ɲ	ŋ
Rhotic			r
Lateral			l
Approximant		w		j

• [ʔ] may also occur, but only phonetically before initial vowels.

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
High	i		u
Mid		ə
Low		a

• [e] and [o] may also occur, but only in complimentary distribution with /i/ and /u/.