Punan languages
E534746
Punan languages are a group of Austronesian languages spoken by various Punan (Penan) hunter-gatherer communities in Borneo, known for their close association with the island’s interior rainforest regions.
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
language group ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Penan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
hunter-gatherer communities
ⓘ
rainforest interior of Borneo ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| demographicTrend | declining number of fluent speakers in some groups ⓘ |
| domain | traditional forest-based subsistence vocabulary rich ⓘ |
| ethnologueScope | multiple distinct languages ⓘ |
| family | Austronesian language family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution | interior river systems of Borneo ⓘ |
| region |
Brunei interior
ⓘ
Kalimantan NERFINISHED ⓘ Sabah NERFINISHED ⓘ Sarawak NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Kayan languages
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kenyah languages ⓘ other North Bornean Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| researchStatus | underdescribed ⓘ |
| sociolinguisticSituation |
language shift toward Malay in some communities
ⓘ
oral tradition dominant ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Penan people
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Punan people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Borneo
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Brunei NERFINISHED ⓘ Indonesia ⓘ Malaysia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status |
endangered languages
ⓘ
minority languages ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Bornean languages
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typologicalFeature | word order SVO ⓘ |
| usedFor |
ritual and oral literature
ⓘ
traditional knowledge transmission ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin script (for some languages, non-standardized) ⓘ |
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