TheNorth Sarawakan languages are a group ofAustronesian languages spoken in the northeastern part of the province ofSarawak,Borneo, and proposed in Blust (1991, 2010).

North Sarawakan languages

• Kenyah
• Dayic languages (Apo Duat)
• Berawan–Lower Baram
• Bintulu

Ethnologue 16 addsPunan Tubu as an additional branch, and notes that Bintulu might be closest to Baram. TheMelanau–Kajang languages were removed in Blust 2010.

The Northern Sarawak languages are well known for strange phonological histories.^[1]

Smith (2017)^[2] classifies the North Sarawakan languages as follows.

• Bintulu
• Berawan–Lower Baram
  • Berawan (various dialects)
  • Lower Baram (Miri, Kiput, Narum, Belait, Lelak, Lemeting, Dali’)
• Dayic
  • Kelabit (Bario, Pa’ Dalih, Tring, Sa’ban, Long Seridan, Long Napir)
  • Lun Dayeh (Long Bawan, Long Semadoh)
• Kenyah
  • Highland (Lepo’ Gah, Lepo’ Tau, Lepo’ Sawa, Lepo’, Lepo’ Laang, Badeng, Lepo’ Jalan, Uma’ Baha, Uma’ Bem, Òma Lóngh)
  • Lowland
    • Eastern Lowland (Uma’ Pawe, Uma’ Timai, Lebo’ Kulit)
    • Western Lowland (Lebo’Vo’, Sebop, Penan (eastern and western varieties))

• North Sarawakan languages

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