Coastal Kadazan is a member of the North Bornean group of Malayo-Polynesian languages. It is spoken by about 220,000 Kadazan people in the State of Sabah and the Federal Territory of Labuan of the coast of Sabah in Malaysia. In particular, it is spoken in the Penampang and Papar districts in the West Coast Division (Bahagian Pantai Barat) in Sabah, and in the Beaufort sub-district of the Membakut District in the Interior Division (Bahagian Pedalaman) of Sabah.
Coastal Kadazan is also known as Boos Kadazan, Bo'os Kadazan or Dusun Tangara. It is consider a dialect of Central Dusun, although it is classified as a separate language by some people. It is closely related the Central Dusun, which is also spoken in Sabah. The two languages are mutually intelligible and a standarised Kadazandusun language, based on the Bundu-Liwan dialect, was created in 1995 by the Kadazandusun Cultural Association Sabah.
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Dadi' poboos no isido do. "Kivaa songuhun kusai i kivaa do duvo tanank kusai. Poboos no doid di tama' dau i tomuhok do, 'Oi Ama', pataako' dogo' i baagi ku di kaḇun,' ka. Dadi' piboogizo' no di tama' i tungkus doid dioho.
Kivaa no piipio tadau mantad dii, pomuumuput no i tanak tomuhok om tongkizad no do pinakaazan doid pomogunan tosodu' do mingavi' di usin dau do id pamaamasi talaat.
And he said, "There was a man who had two sons. The younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me my share of the inheritance from our property.' So the father divided his estate between them.
Not long after, the younger son gathered all he had and left for a far country. There, he squandered his wealth in reckless living.
(part of The Parable of the Prodigal Son)
Information about Coastal Kadazan | Phrases | Numbers | Tower of Babel
Information about Coastal Kadazan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastal_Kadazan_language
http://www.language-archives.org/language/kzj
https://www.sil.org/resources/search/language/dtp
Belait, Bonggi, Central Dusun, Coastal Kadazan, Idaʼan, Kadazandusun, Kelabit, Lun Bawang, Melanau, Rejang, Tombonuwo
Languages written with the Latin alphabet
Page last modified: 08.08.25
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