Tutong Language Documentation Project

Project funded by Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD). Audio and video texts were collected from Tutong speakers, generally aged above 60 yrs old, in the Tutong district of Brunei Darussalam, in 2007-2009. Project coordinator & recordist: Adrian Clynes. Speaker recruitment and Interviewer: Hj Ramlee Tunggal (retired secondary teacher, with a BA in Malay linguistics from UBD). Dictionary items elicitation: Juergen Burkhardt. Other support: Noor Azam Haji-Othman, Hj Ramlee Tingkong. Speakers of this language refer to it as (basa') Tutung or (with an older Malay-influenced spelling) Tutong. This is the only language in Brunei referred to in this way. The language label "Tutong 2" used by the Ethnologue following Wurm and Hattori 1981 is misleading. Wurm and Hattori's "Tutong 1" is referred to as the Dusun language in Brunei, and never (officially or informally) as "Tutong" (either 1 or 2).

本项目由文莱达鲁萨兰国大学（Universiti Brunei Darussalam, UBD）资助。2007年至2009年间，研究人员于文莱达鲁萨兰国都东县（Tutong district），面向年龄普遍在60岁以上的都东语使用者采集音视频语料及转写文本。项目协调人与录音师：Adrian Clynes。说话者招募与访谈工作由Hj Ramlee Tunggal负责，其为退休中学教师，毕业于文莱达鲁萨兰国大学，获马来语言学学士学位。词典条目征集工作由Juergen Burkhardt负责。其他支持人员包括Noor Azam Haji-Othman与Hj Ramlee Tingkong。该语言的使用者将其称为“basa’ Tutung”，或采用受古马来语影响的旧式拼写“Tutong”，这是文莱境内唯一以此方式命名的语言。《民族语》（Ethnologue）依据Wurm与Hattori 1981年的研究成果，将该语言标注为“Tutong 2”，此标注存在误导性。Wurm与Hattori所称的“Tutong 1”在文莱被称为杜顺语（Dusun language），无论官方还是民间场合，均从未将其称作“Tutong”（无论是1号还是2号）。