Biatah language

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.

Biatah
Native to	Malaysia
Region	Borneo
Ethnicity	Bidayuh
Native speakers	(72,000 cited 2000)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Land Dayak Bidayuh Biatah–Tringgus Biatah
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bth
Glottolog	biat1246

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive/ Affricate	voiceless	p	t	(t͡ʃ)	k	ʔ
	voiced	b	d	d͡ʒ	g
Fricative			s			h
Nasal		m	n	ɲ	ŋ
Trill			r
Approximant		w	(l)	j

• [t͡ʃ] and [l] are heard in other dialects.

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i	ɨ	u
Mid	e	ə	o
Open		a	ɔ

• /i, u, e, o/ can have allophones of [ɪ, ʊ, ɛ, ɔ].^[2][3]