Kiput language

Kiput

Spoken in Northern Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia

Native speakers 450 (date missing)

Language codes

ISO 639-3 kyi

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Kiput is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by about 450 people in northern Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia.

Phonology

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/.

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Stop	Voiceless	p	t		k	ʔ
Stop	Voiced	b	d		ɡ
Affricate	Voiceless			c
Affricate	Voiced			(ɟ)
Nasal		m	n	ɲ	ŋ
Fricative		f	s			h
Lateral			l
Rhotic			r
Semivowel		w		j

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.