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Mintil language

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Native to
  
Malaysia

Native speakers
  
180 (2005)

Glottolog
  
mint1239

Region
  
Pahang

ISO 639-3
  
mzt

Language family
  
Austroasiatic Aslian Jahaic Eastern Mintil

Mintil (alternatively Batek Tanum or Tanɨm) is a possibly extinct aboriginal Mon–Khmer language of Malaya. In the late 1960s, Geoffrey Benjamin had come across speakers of Mintil among patients of an Orang Asli hospital at Ulu Gombak, just outside Kuala Lumpur (Benjamin 2011).

References

Mintil language Wikipedia