Kembayan language

Kembayan
Mateq
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Kalimantan
Native speakers	11,000 (2007)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Land Dayak Southern Land Dayak Kembayan
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xem
Glottolog	kemb1249

Kembayan, or Mateq (Mate’), is a Dayak language of Borneo.

Phonology

Consonants

	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	p b	t d	tʃ dʒ	k g	ʔ
Prenasalized	ᵐp (ᵐb)	ⁿt ⁿd ⁿs	ⁿtʃ ⁿdʒ	ᵑk ᵑg
Fricative		s			h
Nasal	m mː	n nː	ɲ	ŋ
Approximant	w	r, l	j

• The phoneme /ᵐb/ is only attested in a single word that has likely been borrowed.

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
High	i ĩ	ɨ ɨ̃	u ũ
Mid-high	e ẽ		o õ
Mid-low			ɔ ɔ̃
Low		a ã

Additionally, the following diphthongs are attested: /ɨi/, /ai/, /oi/, /ia/, /ɨa/, /ua/, /io/, /ao/, /iu/, /au/, /ou/.