Bintulu language

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Bintulu
Vaie
Native toMalaysia
RegionSarawak
Native speakers
(4,200 cited 1981)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3bny
Glottologbint1246
ELPBintulu

Bintulu or Vaie is an Austronesian language of Borneo. Robert Blust leaves it as an isolate within the North Sarawakan languages.[2] Ethnologue notes that it might be closest to Baram within those languages.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Bintulu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Blust, Robert (2010). "The Greater North Borneo Hypothesis". Oceanic Linguistics. 49 (1): 49. JSTOR 40783586.

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