Penan, also known as Punan-Nibong, is a language complex spoken by the
Penan people
The Penan are a nomadic Indigenous peoples, indigenous people living in Sarawak and Brunei, although there is only one small community in Brunei; among those in Brunei half have been converted to Islam, even if only superficially. Penan are one ...
of Borneo. They are related to the
Kenyah languages. ''
Glottolog
''Glottolog'' is a bibliographic database of the world's lesser-known languages, developed and maintained first at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany (between 2015 and 2020 at the Max Planck Institute for ...
'' shows Western Penan as closer to
Sebop than it is to Eastern Penan.
References
External links
*ELAR archive o
Eastern Penan
Kenyah languages
Languages of Malaysia
Languages of Brunei
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