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Mainstream Kenyah language

language of Borneo

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ6736761 ↗
Source-derived summary

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 [pː, t̪ː] or as unreleased in word-final [p̚, t̪̚].

Vowels

/i/ can also occur as lax [ɪ].

Sounds /a, u/ can also be heard as long [aː, uː].

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Mainstream Kenyah language” as language of Borneo. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 87-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Mainstream, Kenyah and language can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as language of Borneo. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6736761. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  2. Expand the search: follow Mainstream Kenyah language primary sources, Mainstream Kenyah language archive and Mainstream research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mainstream Kenyah language” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.