Kenyah languages

Kenyah
Geographic
distribution:
Borneo
Linguistic classification:

Austronesian

Glottolog: kaya1332  (partial match)[1]

The Kenyah languages are a group of half a dozen or so closely related languages spoken by the Kenyah peoples of Borneo. They are:

Kenyah proper (a dialect cluster, incl. Madang), Sebob, Bakung, Tutoh (Long Wat), Wahau Kenyah, Uma’ Lung / Uma’ Lasan.

Ethnologue says that the Punan–Nibong languages are related to Uma’ Lasan, Glottolog that they are outside the Kenyah languages.

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kayan–Kenyah". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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