The Biatah language is spoken in the

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and the

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n province of

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. It belongs to the

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branch of the Austronesian language family.

Phonology

Consonants

* and are heard in other dialects.

Vowels

* can have allophones of .Topping (1993)

References

* Topping, Donald M. ''A Dialect Survey of the Land Dayaks of Sarawak, Language and Oral Traditions in Borneo''. 1993. Selected Papers from the First Extraordinary Conference of The Borneo Research Council, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, August 4-9, 1990, pp. 247-274 {{authority control Agglutinative languages Languages of Malaysia Land Dayak languages Languages of Indonesia