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  • noun A member of an indigenous tribe in the interior of Sarawak, Malaysia.
  • proper noun Their Borneo-Philippine language.

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  • VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Secret plans revealed to submerge Penan villages'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'A secret document accidentally posted on the internet reveals plans to build a series of massive hydroelectric dams in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, submerging the homes of at least a thousand Penan, Kelabit and Kenyah tribal people. '

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Secret plans revealed to submerge Penan villages 2008

  • A secret document accidentally posted on the internet reveals plans to build a series of massive hydroelectric dams in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, submerging the homes of at least a thousand Penan, Kelabit and Kenyah tribal people.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Secret plans revealed to submerge Penan villages 2008

  • I'm asking because a plosive system like that of PIE, with voiceless unaspirated, voiced unaspirated, and voiced aspirated plosives, is only attested in a single modern language worldwide Kelabit, spoken in Sarawak.

    How NOT to reconstruct a protolanguage 2007

  • Native groups such as Kayan, Kenyah, Kelabit, Murut and even the Penan claimed the Sape is theirs.

    Borneo Sape Festival 2008. 2007

  • Then in Australia, several Christians felt called to serve the Lun Bawang and Kelabit people.

    Movements that change the world 2010

  • NBA Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar revealed in an interview Monday that he is battling a rare form of KUCHING: Sarawak's Bario rice, grown in the Kelabit Highlands, is now recognised and protected as a

    WN.com - Articles related to S'wak Shell staff want govt to stop impending retrenchment 2009

  • KUCHING: Sarawak's Bario rice, grown in the Kelabit Highlands, is now recognised and protected as a

    WN.com - Articles related to Malaysia to import meat from Pakistan 2009

  • A well-known native land rights activist and lawyer Baru Bian has been put in charge of the Orang Ulu (which include Kayan, Kenyah, Kelabit and Lun Bawang) section.

    Malaysiakini 2009

  • A well-known native land rights activist and lawyer Baru Bian has been put in charge of the Orang Ulu (which include Kayan, Kenyah, Kelabit and Lun Bawang) section.

    Malaysiakini 2009

  • Populated by the Lun Ba-wang and Kelabit minority ethnic groups, Bario is well-known for its fragrant rice and tourism spots.

    EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed 2008

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