Kayan, Baram

KYS

threatened

Alternate Names: Baram Kajan

Dialects: Long Akahsemuka, Long Atip.

Genealogy:

Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
North Borneo
North Sarawakan
Kayan-Kenyah
Kayanic
Kayan Proper

Demographics: 4,150 (Wurm and Hattori 1981).

Language Use: Some young people, all adults.

Language Development: Bible: 1990.

Writing System: Latin

Nation of Origin: Malaysia