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Bruneian Dusuns ( Sang Jati Dusun) are directly related to the Dusun people of Sabah, both belong to the same Dusunic Family group. Bruneian Dusuns share a common origin, language and identity with the Bisaya people of Brunei, northern Sarawak and southwestern Sabah.
Nowadays the Bisaya living in Sabah are Muslims, while the Bisaya living in Sarawak are mostly Christians. In Brunei, they are referred as Dusun, Jati Dusun and Bisaya (one group with the Dusun people of Sabah, Dusunic people). The Bisaya is closely related, linguistically, with the Tatana Dusun of Kuala Penyu, Sabah.
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According to Brunei’s Population and Housing Census 2011, the definition of who is Malay includes the following groups: Brunei, Tutong, Belait, Kedayan, Dusun, Bisaya or Murut.
Mar 27, 2023 · The Bisaya tribe has many similarities with the Dusun Tatana tribe, especially in terms of language. It is evident that some of their dialogical language conversations are almost identical if they have a dialogue with each other. Nowadays the Bisaya living in Sabah are Muslims, while the Bisaya living in Sarawak are mostly Christians.
Sep 18, 2016 · Of the other Austronesian minority languages, Dusun and Bisaya are similar, some people describing them as varieties of the same language (Nothofer 1991), and Belait and Tutong are also closely related (Martin and Poedjosoedarmo 1996). The other language recognised as an indigenous language of Brunei, Murut , is mostly spoken in the Temburong ...
- James McLellan, Noor Azam Haji-Othman, David Deterding
- 2016
Sep 18, 2016 · Dusun, the subject of the case study presented in this chapter, and Bisaya are ‘mutually intelligible dialects’ (Nothofer 1991, p. 155) despite the fact that they are listed as separate ethnic groups in the Brunei Constitution. All of these languages have undergone language shift , with some languages faring better than others.
The Bisaya tribe has many similarities with the Dusun Tatana tribe, especially in terms of language. It is evident that some of their dialogical language conversations are almost identical if they have a dialogue with each other. Nowadays the Bisaya living in Sabah are Muslims, while the Bisaya living in Sarawak are mostly Christians.
