Mainstream Kenyah language

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:

• Lepo’ Tau, Lepo’ Bem, Uma’ Jalan, Uma’ Tukung
• Lepo’ Ke, Lepo’ Kuda
• Lepo’ Maut, Lepo’ Ndang, Badeng (Madang)
• Bakung, Lepo’ Tepu’ (Lepo Teppu’).

Phonology

Consonants

• Sounds can also occur as geminated or as unreleased in word-final .

Vowels

• can also occur as lax .
• Sounds can also be heard as long .

References

External links

• Kaipuleohone's archive of Robert Blust's work includes