Kiput language

Kiput
Region Northern Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia
Native speakers
unknown (2,500 cited 1981)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 kyi
Glottolog kipu1237[2]

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
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 ɲ
Semivowel w j

References

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