The Biatah language is spoken in the Malaysian state of Sarawak and the Indonesian province of West Kalimantan. It belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family.

Phonology

Consonants LabialAlveolarPalatalVelarGlottalPlosive/Affricatevoiceless()voicedFricativeNasalTrillApproximant()

and are heard in other dialects.

Vowels FrontCentralBackCloseMidOpen

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