The Biatah language is spoken in the Malaysian state of Sarawak and the Indonesian province of West Kalimantan. It belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family.
Biatah | |
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Native to | Malaysia |
Region | Borneo |
Ethnicity | Bidayuh |
Native speakers | 72,000 (2000)[1] |
Austronesian
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | bth |
Glottolog | biat1246 |
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Plosive/ Affricate |
voiceless | p | t | (t͡ʃ) | k | ʔ |
voiced | b | d | d͡ʒ | g | ||
Fricative | s | h | ||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
Trill | r | |||||
Approximant | w | (l) | j |
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i | ɨ | u |
Mid | e | ə | o |
Open | a | ɔ |