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Bintulu
Vaie
Native to Malaysia
Region Sarawak
Native speakers
(4,200 cited 1981) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 bny
Glottolog bint1246
ELP Bintulu

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

  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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