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Language of Borneo
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[2]
- Lepo’ Ke, Lepo’ Kuda
- Lepo’ Maut, Lepo’ Ndang, Badeng (Madang)[3]
- Bakung, Lepo’ Tepu’ (Lepo Teppu’).
- Sounds /p, t̪/ can also occur as geminated [pː, t̪ː] or as unreleased in word-final [p̚, t̪̚].
- /i/ can also occur as lax [ɪ].
- Sounds /a, u/ can also be heard as long [aː, uː].[4]
- ^ 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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