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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 /p, t̪/ can also occur as geminated or as unreleased in word-final .

Vowels

• /i/ can also occur as lax .
• Sounds /a, u/ can also be heard as long .

References

1. Kenyah at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. also Lepo Jengan, Lepo Aga, Uma Ake, Lepo Ga, Lepo La’ang, Sambup, and Likan
3. also Lepo Jamok
4. Asih, Yuni Utami (2017). Inventory of Kenyah Lepo Tau Segmental Sounds.

External links

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

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