Kayan language (Borneo)
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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.

Baram Kayan is a local trade language.[further explanation needed] Bahau is part of the dialect cluster, but is not ethnically Kayan.

Glottolog v4.8 classifies the Kayan dialect cluster as follows:

The following is based on the Baram dialect:

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