Mainstream Kenyah language
| Kenyah | |
|---|---|
| Lepo’ | |
| Bakung | |
| Native to | Indonesia, Malaysia |
| Region | Borneo |
| Ethnicity | Kenyah |
Native speakers | 50,000 (2007–2013)[1] |
|
Austronesian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
xkl |
| Glottolog |
main1275[2] |
Mainstream Kenyah AKA Bakung is a Kayan language dialect cluster of East Kalimantan and Sarawak. Dialects fall into four clusters:
- Lepo’ Tau, Lepo’ Bem, Uma’ Jalan, Uma’ Tukung[3]
- Lepo’ Ke, Lepo’ Kuda
- Lepo’ Maut, Lepo’ Ndang, Badeng (Madang)[4]
- Bakung, Lepo’ Tepu’ (Lepo Teppu’).
External links
- ↑ Kenyah at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mainstream Kenyah". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ also Lepo Jengan, Lepo Aga, Uma Ake, Lepo Ga, Lepo La’ang, Sambup, and Likan
- ↑ also Lepo Jamok
