Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Coastal Kadazan, also known as Kadazan Tangaa', is dialect of the Kadazan Dusun language primarily spoken in Sabah, Malaysia. It is the primary language spoken by the Kadazan people. The dialect has adopted many loanwords, particularly from other North Borneo indigenous languages and also Malay.The use of the dialect has been declining due to the use of Malay by the Malaysian federal government and by the use of English by British missionaries. The state of Sabah has introduced policies to prevent this decline, which is also happening to other native Sabahan languages. This included the policy of using Kadazan and other indigenous languages in public schools. Efforts have also been done to allow the language to become official in the state.Dusun, including Kadazan, is one of two Austronesian languages which extensively employ the voiced alveolar sibilant fricative /z/ in their native (i.e. non-borrowed) lexicons. The other is Malagasy, spoken on the island of Madagascar thousands of miles away off the coast of Africa."@en }
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- Coastal_Kadazan_dialect abstract "Coastal Kadazan, also known as Kadazan Tangaa', is dialect of the Kadazan Dusun language primarily spoken in Sabah, Malaysia. It is the primary language spoken by the Kadazan people. The dialect has adopted many loanwords, particularly from other North Borneo indigenous languages and also Malay.The use of the dialect has been declining due to the use of Malay by the Malaysian federal government and by the use of English by British missionaries. The state of Sabah has introduced policies to prevent this decline, which is also happening to other native Sabahan languages. This included the policy of using Kadazan and other indigenous languages in public schools. Efforts have also been done to allow the language to become official in the state.Dusun, including Kadazan, is one of two Austronesian languages which extensively employ the voiced alveolar sibilant fricative /z/ in their native (i.e. non-borrowed) lexicons. The other is Malagasy, spoken on the island of Madagascar thousands of miles away off the coast of Africa.".
- Q3307195 abstract "Coastal Kadazan, also known as Kadazan Tangaa', is dialect of the Kadazan Dusun language primarily spoken in Sabah, Malaysia. It is the primary language spoken by the Kadazan people. The dialect has adopted many loanwords, particularly from other North Borneo indigenous languages and also Malay.The use of the dialect has been declining due to the use of Malay by the Malaysian federal government and by the use of English by British missionaries. The state of Sabah has introduced policies to prevent this decline, which is also happening to other native Sabahan languages. This included the policy of using Kadazan and other indigenous languages in public schools. Efforts have also been done to allow the language to become official in the state.Dusun, including Kadazan, is one of two Austronesian languages which extensively employ the voiced alveolar sibilant fricative /z/ in their native (i.e. non-borrowed) lexicons. The other is Malagasy, spoken on the island of Madagascar thousands of miles away off the coast of Africa.".