Belait
Facts
- Language: Belait
- Alternate names: Balait Jati, Lemeting, Meting
- Language code: beg
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, North Borneo Malayo-Polynesian, North Sarawakan, Berawan-Lower Baram, Lower Baram, Central Lower Baram A
- Number of speakers: 700
- Vulnerability: Endangered
- Script: Unwritten.
More information:
Recognized indigenous group. Muslim Belait are Malay in orientation. Non-Muslims retain their Belait identity more. Heavy intermarriage with Bisaya and Chinese. Muslim.
Belait is spoken in Malaysia, Brunei, Southeast Asia.