Kiput language
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| Kiput | ||
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| Spoken in: | Northern Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia | |
| Total speakers: | 450 | |
| Language family: | Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Northwest North Sarawakan Berawan-Lower Baram Lower Baram Central A Kiput |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | map | |
| ISO/FDIS 639-3: | kyi | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Kiput is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by about 450 people in northern Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia.
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[edit] Phonology
[edit] Vowels
Kiput has 8 monophthongs /i ɪ e u ʊ o ə a/, at least 12 diphthongs /iw ew uj oj əj əw aj aw iə̯ eə̯ uə̯ oə̯/ and two triphthongs /iə̯j iə̯w/.
[edit] Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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| Stop | Voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
| Voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||
| Affricate | Voiceless | c | ||||
| Voiced | (ɟ) | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
| Fricative | f | s | h | |||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Rhotic | r | |||||
| Semivowel | w | j | ||||
[edit] References
- Blust, Robert (December 2002). "Kiput Historical Phonology". Oceanic Linguistics 42 (2).
- Blust, Robert (2004). A short morphology, phonology and vocabulary of Kiput, Sarawak. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
- Ray, Sidney H. (1913). "The languages of Borneo". The Sarawak Museum Journal 1 (4): 1–196.
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