Find content
OPTIONAL - Only in:
OR search by:
Questions, Answers and VOD
For content providers

Languages: Kayan Murik, Malaysia


Language: Idu Mishmi

Kayan Murik is spoken in the Sarawak State of Malaysia by a small indigenous community of 1,200 to 1,300 speakers living along the Baram River.

Cultivators and sedentary, the Kayan have active trading and exchange relationship with various groups up and down the Baram. They are great craftsmen and well known for their boat-making skills, which they carve from a single block of belian - the strongest of the tropical hardwoo.

References:

- Ethnologue - Languages of the World
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=mxr


Topics and Tags
Place/region: Malaysia, Asia and the Pacific
Series: Connecting through culture- Celebrating diversity
Type: Documentary
Duration:
Production and personalities:
Publisher: Discovery Channel
Coproducer/sponsor: United Nations
Published in:
Rights: Discovery Channel; United Nations
 

   LICENSING: for inquiries about licensing, please contact the rights holder or the author directly. You may also wish to consult our FAQs 4 to 7

Original: VCD
Location: F-H.129
UMVS reference: AUD-DIT/ISS/ARC/0578
Digitized version : AVFONDS-CLT_CEIDCE-0015.MP4

Rights holder: Discovery Channel; United Nations