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Mencalèny & Usung Bayung Marang: A Kenyah language documentation project in East Kalimantan
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Soriente Disagrees with the classification of Kenyah languages. The dialect used in this study, Lebu' Kulit, is grouped by Soriente as a Kayanic language rather than a Kenyah language. Issues in subgrouping languages in Central Borneo are well known, and still up for debate.

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2006

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Indonesia; Malaysia

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2, 116

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Spoken mostly in east Kalimantan.

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Spoken mostly in east Kalimantan.

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2012

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1.584936,116.646503

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