Kenyah

Three Kenyah men 1921–1922. Tropical Museum in Amsterdam

The Kenyah are an ethnic group belonging to the Dayak on the island of Borneo . They live in the remote areas along the rivers Baram and Belaga in to Malaysia belonging to the state of Sarawak and to Indonesia belonging Kalimantan .

The Kenyah are often combined with the Kayan to form the Bahau ethnic group. In addition, in Sarawak they are counted among the orang ulu (people living upstream, inland). Traditionally they live in long houses and grow dry rice on arable land that is obtained from the jungle by means of slash and burn .

Their language belongs to the group of about 16 languages, the Kayan-Murik languages, and thus belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian languages , a branch of the Austronesian language family .

The basics of their culture are essentially similar to that of other Dayak peoples in Borneo. Traditionally, they live in their variant of the long house, which is common throughout Borneo, on a river bank. They grow dry rice on fields that are obtained by slash and burn, which led to shifting cultivation .

literature

Cristina Eghenter, Bernard Sellato, G. Simon Devung (Eds.): Social science research and conservation management in the interior Borneo. Unraveling past and present interactions of people and forests. CIFOR, Bogor 2003, ISBN 979-3361-02-6

Web links

Commons : Kenyah people - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ William F. Frawley (Ed.): International Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Vol. 1. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2003, pp. 353f, ISBN 978-0195139778 . (List of Kenyah-Kayan language groups, on Google Books )

[1] William F. Frawley (Ed.): International Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Vol. 1. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2003, pp. 353f, ISBN 978-0195139778 . (List of Kenyah-Kayan language groups, on Google Books )