Bintulu or Vaie is an Austronesian language of

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leaves it as an isolate within the

North Sarawakan languages The North Sarawakan languages are a group of Austronesian languages spoken in the northeastern part of the province of Sarawak, Borneo, and proposed in Blust (1991, 2010). ;North Sarawakan languages * Kenyah * Dayic languages (Apo Duat) * Berawa ...

. ''Ethnologue'' notes that it might be closest to Baram within those languages.

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* Paradisec has an open access collection o
Bintulu language recordings
made by

. *

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also has archived materials of Bintulu. * Vaie words in the Malay Wiktionary North Sarawakan languages Languages of Malaysia Endangered Austronesian languages {{Austronesian-lang-stub