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: 1000
- Vulnerability: Endangered [Read more...]
- Script:
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Introduction
Belait is a language of Brunei. It is spoken in Scattered in Belait District; Tutong District in Kampung Kiudang. Also in Malaysia.
Dialects
Related to Kiput (See: Kiput?) and Narom (See: Narom?). Lexical similarity: 54% with Tutong (See: Tutong?).
The Belait Verb
Verblist
- pikir
- baʔot -- to fear
- bəturan -- to say
- ceow -- to come
- əndupay -- to dream
- gutɛp -- to bite
- juliʔ -- to spit
- katay -- to kill
- kateow -- to fall
- kəduʔ -- to sit
- kəməmbaŋ -- to swell
- kərəjɛh -- to work
- kəsā -- to cook
- kuman -- to eat
- lakau -- to walk
- lumbay -- to lie down
- madaʔ -- to sniff, smell
- maloŋ -- to throw
- manau -- to steal
- mariow -- to scratch
- maroi -- to sew
- matay -- to die, be dead
- məciʔ -- to know, be knowledgeable
- mədil -- to shoot
- məkil -- to sleep
- məkol -- to dig
- məkut -- to suck
- məlaʔ -- to see
- mələŋah -- to flow
- məlɛy -- to buy
- mənad -- to climb
- mənaŋɛi -- to cry
- məñit -- to stand
- meñiʔ -- to chew
- məpoʔ -- to hit
- mərah -- to squeeze
- meron -- to blow
- məsap -- to drink
- milay -- to choose
- mudoŋ -- to count
- mukā -- to open, uncover
- mukot -- to pound, beat
- mulah -- to plant
- mulon -- to grow
- mulon -- to live, be alive
- mutā -- to vomit
- nusau, terusau, təpoʔ -- to hide
- ŋaʔay -- to yawn
- ŋəsɛŋ -- to laugh
- pəlaŋoi -- to swim
- pələtap -- to hear
- pigɛt -- to tie up, fasten
- pikir -- to think
- piliʔ -- to split
- pitin -- to hold
- pusɛŋ -- to turn
- sundab -- to burn
- totaʔ -- to cut, hack
- tubiaʔ -- to stab, pierce
- tulon -- to fly