Kinabatangan, Upper

DMG

threatened

Alternate Names: Sungai Milian

Dialects: Dusun Segama (Saga-i, Segai, Soghai), Kalabuan (Kolobuan), Makiang, Sinabu’ (Sinabu). Dialects have approximately 87% mutual intelligibility. Lexical similarity: over 90% among all dialects, 80% with Makiang and Sinabu’.

Genealogy:

Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
North Borneo
Sabahan
Paitanic
Upper Kinabatangan

Demographics: Ethnic population: 5,000 (2000 SIL).

Language Development: Bible portions: 1984–1995.

Writing System: Latin

Nation of Origin: Malaysia

Other Comments: Traditional religion, Christian, Muslim.