Biatah language

Biatah
Native to Malaysia
Region Borneo
Ethnicity Bidayuh
Native speakers
72,000 (2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 bth
Glottolog biat1246[2]

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.

References

  1. Biatah at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Biatah Bidayuh". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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