Lebbo' people


The Lebbo' people are part of the indigenous Dayak people of East Kalimantan province, Indonesia. They generally regard themselves as a subgroup of the Kenyah people.
Before the modern era, the Lebbo' people were often hunter-gatherers or horticulturalists.
Most members of the Lebbo' live in the Sangkulirang-Mangkalihat Karst range and speak the Lebu’ Kulit language, also known as Wahau Kenyah.

Population genetics

The Lebbo' have been of great interest to geneticists, due to their distinctive population genetics; these most strongly link them to the Ma'anyan people of Central Kalimantan, as well as other minorities in South East Asia and more distantly link them to some South Asian tribal peoples and indigenous Australians. In a small sample of Lebbo' males the following Y-DNA haplogroups were found: C* 13.33%, K* 6.67%, K2 13.33%, O1b1a1a1a1a 33.33%, O1a2 26.67%, and O2a1b~ 6.67%. A previous study found a small percentage of Lebbo' males to be the only known members of the rare C1b1a2a, also known as C-B67.
The most common Mitochondrial DNA haplogroups found amongst a small sample of 19 Lebbo' individuals were: B4a 21.05%, B5a 15.79%, M20 15.79%, M71a2 15.79%, R9b1a1a 10.53% and E1a 21.05% out of a sample size of 19 Lebbo' people.

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