Kimaragang (Marigang), Tobilung, and Rungus are varieties of a single
Austronesian language of
Sabah
Sabah () is a state of Malaysia located in northern Borneo, in the region of East Malaysia. Sabah borders the Malaysian state of Sarawak to the southwest and the North Kalimantan province of Indonesia to the south. The Federal Territory o ...
, Malaysia. The three varieties share moderate
mutual intelligibility
In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a relationship between languages or dialects in which speakers of different but related varieties can readily understand each other without prior familiarity or special effort. It is sometimes used as an ...
. Children are not learning it well in some areas.
[
''Minokok'' is an endonym of the Sugut Dusun. Their language may be a dialect of Rungus. Their number are not included in the population estimate at right.
]
References
External links
Kimaragang Language and CultureRungus Dictionary on Webonary.org
- dictionary by SIL International
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Dusunic languages
Languages of Malaysia