King Julie K., King John Wayne (Eds.). Languages of Sabah: a survey report

The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1984. — 368 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 78).Nestled along the coast and tucked into the mountains of Sabah are Sabahans representing various cultural groups and speaking various languages and dialects . The cultural centre of some of these groups is in Sabah whereas for others it is in the surrounding area - including Sarawak , Kalimantan, Sulawesi and the southern Philippines as well as some more distant islands of Indonesia. The purpose of this paper is to present a tentative classification of these languages and dialects of Sabah based upon a lexicostatistical analysis of 344 wordlists representing 325 villages of Sabah.