Kenyah people

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

The Kenyah are often combined with the Kayan to ethnic Bahau group. In addition, they are counted in Sarawak to the orang ulu ( upriver, living in the interior people ). They traditionally live in longhouses and build dry rice on farmland, which are obtained by means of slash and burn of the jungle.

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

The foundations of their culture are substantially similar to the other Dayak peoples of Borneo. They traditionally live in their version of the spread to the whole of Borneo longhouse on a riverbank. You operate the cultivation of dry rice on fields that are obtained by burning, which led to shifting cultivation.