Kembayan_language

Kembayan language

Kembayan language

Dayak language spoken on Borneo


Kembayan, or Mateq (Mate’), is a Dayak language of Borneo.

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Phonology

  • The phoneme /ᵐb/ is only attested in a single word that has likely been borrowed.
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Additionally, the following diphthongs are attested: /ɨi/, /ai/, /oi/, /ia/, /ɨa/, /ua/, /io/, /ao/, /iu/, /au/, /ou/.


References

  1. Kembayan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Connell, Timothy M. (2013). A Sketch Grammar of Matéq: A Land Dayak Language of West Kalimantan, Indonesia (MA thesis). University of Canterbury. hdl:10092/8912.

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