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Austronesian family

Mainstream Kenyah

bahasa Kenyah

Mainstream Kenyah is a language of the Kenyah branch (Austronesian), spoken in Indonesia and Malaysia. Wikidata describes it as “language of Borneo”.

6b · Threatened
Wikidata recordGlottolog
At a glance
ISO 639-3
xkl
Glottocode
main1275
Wikipedia
11 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
2countries
—scripts
5levels in the tree
6bEGIDS level

Facts

NameMainstream Kenyah · bahasa Kenyah
Also calledKenyah, Highland Kenyah, Mainstream Kenyah language, Usun Apau Kenyah, Bakung

Vitality

EGIDS 6b Threatened6b

Endangered. Children are no longer learning it everywhere, or only grandparents speak it — EGIDS 6b to 8b.

Other languages at this level
family tree

From Austronesian to Mainstream Kenyah

The branches above Mainstream Kenyah, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.

1039Austronesianfamily944Malayo-Polynesianbranch58Greater North Borneobranch18North Sarawakanbranch6KenyahbranchxklMainstream Kenyahlanguage
where it is spoken

Countries

Indonesia691 languages in the indexMalaysia113 languages in the index

Also spoken in Indonesia

engEnglishIndo-European · 1.13 bn0 · InternationalcmnMandarin ChineseSino-Tibetan · 1.07 bn1 · NationalcmnStandard ChineseSino-Tibetan · 897.1 maraArabicAfroasiatic · 315.4 mSafeindIndonesianAustronesian · 199 m1 · NationaljavJavaneseAustronesian · 84.3 m4 · EducationaltamTamilDravidian · 83 m2 · ProvincialmsaMalayAustronesian · 77 mnanSouthern MinSino-Tibetan · 48.3 m6a · VigoroushakHakka ChineseSino-Tibetan · 48.2 m5 · Developing