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Batek language

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Batek
Native toMalaysia
Ethnicity1,160 Batek people (2008)[1]
Native speakers
1,000 (2006)[1]
Dialects
  • Teq
  • Deq (De’)
  • Iga
  • Nong
Language codes
ISO 639-3btq
Glottologbate1262
ELPBatek

Batek is an aboriginal Mon–Khmer language of Malaya. The Dèq and Nong dialects may be separate languages. The number of speakers is small and decreasing.

References

  1. ^ a b Batek at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)