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Kiput language

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Native speakers
  
(2,500 cited 1981)

Glottolog
  
kipu1237

ISO 639-3
  
kyi

Region
  
Northern Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia

Language family
  
Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian North Bornean North Sarawakan Berawan–Lower Baram Lower Baram Kiput–Belait Kiput

Kiput is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in northern Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia.

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/.

References

Kiput language Wikipedia