Kiput language

Kiput
Native to	Malaysia
Region	Northern Sarawak, Borneo
Native speakers	(2,500 cited 1981) [1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian North Bornean North Sarawakan Berawan–Lower Baram Lower Baram Kiput–Belait Kiput
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kyi
Glottolog	kipu1237
ELP	Kiput
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Kiput is a Malayo-Polynesian language primarily spoken by the Kiput people in northern Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia.

Phonology

While the Northern Sarawakan languages in general are known for unusual phonological developments (for example, Proto-North Sarawak bʰ becomes s in Kiput) ^[2] , Kiput stands out from the rest. ^{[3] [ how? ]}

Vowels

Kiput has eight monophthongs /iɪeuʊoəa/, at least twelve diphthongs /iwewujojəjəwajawiə̯eə̯uə̯oə̯/ and two triphthongs /iə̯jiə̯w/.

Consonants

Kiput consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n	ɲ	ŋ
Plosive	Voiceless	p	t	c	k	ʔ
	Voiced	b	d	( ɟ )	ɡ
Fricative		f	s			h
Liquid	Lateral		l
	Rhotic		r
Semivowel		w		j

References

1. Kiput at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Blust, Robert (2010). "The Greater North Borneo Hypothesis". Oceanic Linguistics. 49 (1): 44–118. doi:10.1353/ol.0.0060. ISSN   1527-9421.
3. Blust 2005, p. 241.

Further reading

• Blust, Robert (2002). "Kiput Historical Phonology". Oceanic Linguistics. 42 (2): 384–438. doi:10.1353/ol.2002.0004. S2CID   145323053.
• Blust, Robert (2004). A Short Morphology, Phonology and Vocabulary of Kiput, Sarawak. Pacific Linguistics 546. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. doi: 10.15144/PL-546 . hdl: 1885/146714 .
• Blust, Robert A. (7 December 2005). "Must sound change be linguistically motivated?". Diachronica. 22 (2): 219–269. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.570.7803 . doi:10.1075/dia.22.2.02blu. Archived from the original on 17 June 2022.
• Ray, Sidney H. (1913). "The Languages of Borneo". The Sarawak Museum Journal. 1 (4): 1–196.

External links

• Kaipuleohone archive includes written materials on Kiput