• Bedroht

  80 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• 8000

  Muttersprachler weltweit
• MEHR ZUR ANZAHL DER SPRECHER

  Soriente Disagrees with the classification of Kenyah languages. The dialect used in this study, Lebu' Kulit, is grouped by Soriente as a Kayanic language rather than a Kenyah language. Issues in subgrouping languages in Central Borneo are well known, and still up for debate.

NUTZUNGSBEREICHE

VERBREITUNG

MEHR ZU SPRACHBESTÄNDIGKEIT

The languages are under treat because of the migration of Kenyah people from their original villages in the upper reaches of the rivers to coastal locations. Also, they are affected by the double influence of better known or “mainstream” Kenyah and Indonesian, the national language.

ORTE

Indonesia; Malaysia

ORTSBESCHREIBUNG

Spoken mostly in east Kalimantan.