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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
Native to	Malaysia
Region	Borneo
Ethnicity	Bidayuh
Native speakers	72,000 (2000)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (MP) Land Dayak Bidayuh Biatah–Tringgus Biatah
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bth
Glottolog	biat1246

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
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

• [t͡ʃ] and [l] are heard in other dialects.

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i	ɨ	u
Mid	e	ə	o
Open		a	ɔ

• /i, u, e, o/ can have allophones of [ɪ, ʊ, ɛ, ɔ].[2][3]

References

• Topping, Donald M. A Dialect Survey of the Land Dayaks of Sarawak, Language and Oral Traditions in Borneo. 1993. Selected Papers from the First Extraordinary Conference of The Borneo Research Council, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, August 4-9, 1990, pp. 247-274

На других языках

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- [en] Biatah language

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[fr] Biatah bidayuh

Le biatah bidayuh est une langue austronésienne parlée en Malaisie, dans l'État de Sarawak, dans le district de Kuching[2], ainsi qu'en Indonésie, dans le Kalimantan. La langue appartient à la branche malayo-polynésienne des langues austronésiennes.

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