Mainstream Kenyah language

Kenyah
	Lepo’
	Bakung
Native to	Indonesia, Malaysia
Region	Borneo
Ethnicity	Kenyah
Native speakers	50,000 (2007–2013)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian North Bornean North Sarawakan Kenyah languages Kenyah; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xkl
Glottolog	main1275[2]

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

Lepo’ Tau, Lepo’ Bem, Uma’ Jalan, Uma’ Tukung[3]
Lepo’ Ke, Lepo’ Kuda
Lepo’ Maut, Lepo’ Ndang, Badeng (Madang)[4]
Bakung, Lepo’ Tepu’ (Lepo Teppu’).

References

Kenyah at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Usun Apau Kenyah". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
also Lepo Jengan, Lepo Aga, Uma Ake, Lepo Ga, Lepo La’ang, Sambup, and Likan
also Lepo Jamok

External links

Kaipuleohone's archive of Robert Blust's work includes notes on Kenyah language

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[e18-1] Kenyah at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Usun Apau Kenyah". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[3] so Lepo Jengan, Lepo Aga, Uma Ake, Lepo Ga, Lepo La’ang, Sambup, and Likan

[4] so Lepo Jamok