Punan languages

Not to be confused with Rejang language.

The Punan languages or Rejang-Sajau languages are a group of mutually intelligible isolects spoken by the Punan and related peoples of Borneo in Indonesia and Malaysia.^[1]

Punan
Geographic distribution	Indonesia and Malaysia (Borneo)
Linguistic classification	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Greater North Borneo Central Sarawak Punan–Müller-Schwaner Punan
Language codes
Glottolog	puna1280

Classification

Smith (2017) classifies Punan dialects as follows:

• Sru (Seru) †
• Punan Tubu-Bah
  • Punan Tubu, Punan Bah, Sajau, Latti
• Punan
  • Beketan (Bukitan), Punan Lisum, Punan Aput, Ukit, Buket (Bukat)

Austroasiatic influence

Kaufman (2018) notes that some Proto-Punan words (Smith 2017) are of likely Austroasiatic origin, including the following.^[2]

• *-iap ‘count’
• *hen ‘3.SG pronoun’
• *buhak ‘white’
• *obet ‘animal trap (general)’