Mainstream Kenyah language

Kenyah
Kenyah
Lepo’
Bakung
Native to	Indonesia, Malaysia
Region	Borneo
Ethnicity	Kenyah
Native speakers	50,000 (2007–2013)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian North Bornean North Sarawakan Kenyah Kenyah; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xkl
Glottolog	main1275

Mainstream Kenyah, also known as Usun Apau and Bakung, is a Kenyah dialect cluster of North Kalimantan, Indonesia, and Sarawak, Malaysia. Dialects fall into four clusters:

Phonology

		Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive/ Affricate	voiceless	p	t̪		t͡ʃ	k	ʔ
Plosive/ Affricate	voiced	b		d	d͡ʒ	g
Fricative				s
Nasal		m		n	ɲ	ŋ
Trill				r
Approximant		w		l	j

Sounds /p, t̪/ can also occur as geminated [pː, t̪ː] or as unreleased in word-final [p̚, t̪̚].

^ Kenyah at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ also Lepo Jengan, Lepo Aga, Uma Ake, Lepo Ga, Lepo La’ang, Sambup, and Likan
^ also Lepo Jamok
^ Asih, Yuni Utami (2017). Inventory of Kenyah Lepo Tau Segmental Sounds.

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