• Threatened

  100 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• 3,000

  Native speakers worldwide
• MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS

  Uma' Lung is under threat because of the migration of Kenyah people from their original villages in the upper reaches of the rivers to coastal locations. They face significant discrimination.

DOMAINS OF USE

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS

TRANSMISSION

GOVERNMENT SUPPORT

none

INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT

none

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

• The community speaks Mainstream Kenyah and Indonesian

• the national language.

PLACES

Indonesia

• Threatened

  20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• 3,000

  Native speakers worldwide
• MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS

  (Soriente 2006)

DATE OF INFO

2006

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

• Mainstream Kenyah (Lepo Tau’ dialect) [xkl]

PLACES

Indonesia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION

"Kalimantan Timur Province, Malinau regency, Pimping, Long Setulang, Batu Kajang, Long Uli, and Long Belua villages. Middle Malinau river."