Mintil | |
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Mayah, Tanɨm | |
Native to | Malaysia |
Region | Lipis District, Pahang |
Native speakers | 400 (2020)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | mzt |
Glottolog | mint1239 |
ELP | Mintil |
Mintil (alternatively Batek Tanum, Tanɨm, or Mayah) is an Aslian languageofMalaysia. It is considered to be a variety of the Batek language.
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In the late 1960s, Geoffrey Benjamin had come across speakers of Mintil among patients of an Orang Asli hospital at Ulu Gombak, just outside Kuala Lumpur.[2]
The people are commonly referred to as Batek. There are 400 speakers of Mintil in Lipis District, Pahang who call themselves Batɛik ‘in-group people’, Batɛik Tɔm Tanɨm ‘people of the Tanum River’, and Batɛik Mayah [ba'tɛik may'ãh]. Their villages are:[1]
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