| Kiput | |
| Speakers: | 2,500 |
| Date: | 1981 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | Austronesian |
| Fam6: | Lower Baram |
| Fam7: | Kiput–Belait |
| Iso3: | kyi |
| Glotto: | kipu1237 |
| Glottorefname: | Kiput |
| Notice: | IPA |
Kiput is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in northern Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia.
While the Northern Sarawakan languages in general are known for unusual phonological developments, Kiput stands out from the rest.
Kiput has eight monophthongs pronounced as //i ɪ e u ʊ o ə a//, at least twelve diphthongs pronounced as //iw ew uj oj əj əw aj aw iə̯ eə̯ uə̯ oə̯// and two triphthongs pronounced as //iə̯j iə̯w//.
| Nasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | Voiceless | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |
| Voiced | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | (pronounced as /link/) | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| Fricative | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| Liquid | Lateral | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| Rhotic | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| Semivowel | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||