Bintulu language

Bintulu
Vaie
Native toMalaysia
RegionSarawak
Native speakers
(4,200 cited 1981)
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. Ethnologue notes that it might be closest to Baram within those languages.

References

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