Identifying Relation Between Miriek and Kenyah Badeng Language by Using Morphological Analyzer

Miriek and Kenyah-Badeng are native minority languages in Sarawak with a dwindling number of speakers and are spoken particularly in the state's northern region [4]. Miriek and Kenyah-Badeng are categorized as under-resourced languages and the resources for these languages are scarce and limited. Due to its scarcity, not a lot of information about the relationship between both languages is known although both languages supposedly belong to the same language family. In this study, rule-based morphological analyzers were built for Miriek and Kenyah-Badeng. The study aimed to create a written corpus for the targeted languages, morphological analyzers for the targeted languages, and findings on possible relationships between targeted languages in terms of morphology. The accuracy result of the rule-based morphological analyzers was high and the findings on the relationships between Miriek and Kenyah-Badeng show a high degree of similarities. The future work suggestion includes the inclusion of more languages especially the ones that are located in the same area of both languages were spoken to gain more insight into the relationship between these languages.