Penan language
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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 The Kenyah languages are a group of half a dozen or so closely related languages spoken by the Kenyah peoples of Borneo. They are: : Kenyah proper (a dialect cluster, incl. Madang), Sebob, Tutoh (Long Wat), Wahau Kenyah, Uma’ Lung / Uma’ ...
. ''
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.


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*ELAR archive o
Eastern Penan
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