Kiput language
Appearance
Kiput | |
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Region | Northern Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia |
Native speakers | (2,500 cited 1981)[1] |
Austronesian
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | kyi |
Glottolog | kipu1237 |
ELP | Kiput |
Kiput is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in northern Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia.
Phonology
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/.
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 |
References
- ^ Kiput at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- Blust, Robert (December 2002). "Kiput Historical Phonology". Oceanic Linguistics. 42 (2). doi:10.1353/ol.2002.0004.
- 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.