Kayan language (Borneo)

Kayan (Kajan, Kayan proper) is a dialect cluster spoken by the Kayan people of Borneo. It is a cluster of closely related dialects with limited mutual intelligibility, and is itself part of the Kayan-Murik group of Austronesian languages.

For the unrelated "Kayan" language spoken by the Kayan people of Burma, see Padaung language.

Kayan
Kajan
Native to	Indonesia, Malaysia
Region	Borneo
Ethnicity	Kayan people
Native speakers	(35,000 cited 1981–2007)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Kayan–Murik Modang–Kayan Kayan
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously: xay – Kayan Mahakam kys – Baram Kayan bfg – Busang Kayan xkn – Kayan River Kayan xkd – Mendalam Kayan ree – Rejang Kayan whu – Wahau Kayan bhv – Bahau
Glottolog	kaya1323  Kayan Proper[2] kaya1325  Kayan River Kayan[3] reja1241  Rejang Kayan[4]

Baram Kayan is a local trade language. Bahau is part of the dialect cluster, but is not ethnically Kayan.

External links

1. Kayan Mahakam at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Baram Kayan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Busang Kayan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Kayan River Kayan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Mendalam Kayan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Rejang Kayan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   (Additional references under 'Language codes' in the information box)
2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kayan Proper". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kayan River Kayan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
4. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Rejang Kayan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.