| Belait | |
|---|---|
| Lemeting, Metteng | |
| Native to | Belait, Tutong (Brunei), Sarawak (Malaysia) |
| Region | Brunei, Malaysia |
| Ethnicity | Belait people |
Native speakers | (undated figure of 1,000 in Brunei)[1] (700 in 1995)[2] |
Austronesian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | beg |
| Glottolog | bela1260 |
| ELP | Belait |
Belait, or Lemeting, is a Malayo-Polynesian language of Brunei and neighbouring Malaysia. It is spoken by the Belait people who mainly reside in the Bruneian Belait District. There were estimated to be 700 speakers in 1995.[2]
- ^ Belait at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
- ^ a b Martin, Peter W. 1995. 'Whither the indigenous languages of Brunei Darussalam?' Oceanic Linguistics 34:44–60
