Kelabit is one of the remotest languages of Borneo, on the Sarawak–Kalimantan border, and spoken by one of smallest ethnicities in Borneo, the Kelabit people. Kelabit is notable for having "a typologically rare series of true voice aspirates" along with modally voiced and tenuis consonants but without an accompanying series of voiceless aspirates. It is the only language known to have this phonation contrast, which has been reconstructed for Proto-Indo-European.

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  • Kelabit is one of the remotest languages of Borneo, on the Sarawak–Kalimantan border, and spoken by one of smallest ethnicities in Borneo, the Kelabit people. Kelabit is notable for having "a typologically rare series of true voice aspirates" along with modally voiced and tenuis consonants but without an accompanying series of voiceless aspirates. It is the only language known to have this phonation contrast, which has been reconstructed for Proto-Indo-European.
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  • Austronesian
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  • kzi
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  • Kelabit
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  • Borneo
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  • 1750 (year 2000)
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  • Kelabit is one of the remotest languages of Borneo, on the Sarawak–Kalimantan border, and spoken by one of smallest ethnicities in Borneo, the Kelabit people. Kelabit is notable for having "a typologically rare series of true voice aspirates" along with modally voiced and tenuis consonants but without an accompanying series of voiceless aspirates. It is the only language known to have this phonation contrast, which has been reconstructed for Proto-Indo-European.
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  • Kelabit language
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  • Kelabit
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