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Name: Temuan
Type: Language
Alternate Names: Benua; Niap; Beduanda
Spoken in: Malaysia
Number of speakers: Ethnic population: 22,162 (2003 COAC) (Ethnologue)
Number of speakers: 8000 (UNESCO)
Number of speakers: 9312 (World Oral Literature Project)
Code: tmw
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Austronesian
Parent Subgroup: Malay (maly)
Child Dialects: Temuan (tmw-tem) Beduanda; Biduanda (tmw-bed) Belanda; Belana; Blanda; Landa; Belanas; Belandas (tmw-bel) Berembun; Birmun (tmw-ber) Udai (tmw-uda) Mantra; Mentera; Mintra (tmw-man)

Endangerment Status


UNESCO Status: Severely endangered
Ethnologue Status: Not listed
Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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