ABSTRACT
Kimaragang is a Dusunic language spoken by approximately 10,000 people living in the state of Sabah, East Malaysia. The Dusunic family, together with Murut-Tidong, Paitanic, and Bisayan, comprise the Northeast Borneo subgroup (Wurm 1983; Smith 1984). The wider genetic classification of this stock is a debated issue which will not be discussed here (see Blust 1998 and ADELAAR, A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE). The Dusunic languages share many lexical and phonological features with various Philippine languages; but the most striking parallels are found in morphology and syntax, where Dusunic shows a very high degree of similarity to languages of the central Philippines such as Tagalog and Cebuano.
