DusunDusun is the collective name of an indigenous ethnic group to the Malaysian state of Sabah of North Borneo. Collectively, they form the largest ethnic group in Sabah. The Dusun people have been internationally recognised as indigenous to Borneo since 2004 as per the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Other similarly named, yet unrelated groups can also be found in Brunei and the Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Territoire fédéral de LabuanLe territoire fédéral de Labuan, en malais Wilayah Persekutuan Labuan, est un territoire fédéral de la Malaisie, faisant autrefois partie de Sabah. Il est composé de plusieurs îles, dont la principale Labuan, situées au large de la côte nord de Bornéo et du sultanat de Brunei. thumb|left Le territoire est composé d'une grande île () et de six îlots (Pulau Burung, Pulau Daat, Pulau Kuraman, Pulau Papan, Pulau Rusukan Kecil et Pulau Rusukan Besar). Il abrite le parc marin de Labuan.
Tagalog (ethnie)thumb|Costumes Tagalog au début du . Aventures d'un gentilhomme breton aux îles Philippines, par Paul de La Gironière, 1855. Les Tagalog sont l'une des principales ethnies des Philippines, avec autour de d'habitants. Leur nom provient du terme local taga ilog, qui signifie « ceux qui vivent près de la (ou d'une) rivière », ou « ceux qui viennent de la rivière ». Cette ethnie est majoritaire dans les provinces d'Aurora, Bataan, Batangas (qui serait leur région d'origine), Cavite, Bulacain, Laguna, Grand Manille, Nueva Ecija, Mindoro occidental, Mindoro oriental, Quezon, Camarines Norte, Marinduque et Rizal.
Traditional Sabahan religionsMomolianism is a belief system of the Kadazan-Dusun people of Sabah. Momolianism states that land is a gift from the creator, the earth is a centre of the universe and that the land connects them to the past, present and future. This system of belief, inherited from their ancestors, was passed down through the Bobohizan, (Kadazan term) or Bobolian (Dusun term), priestesses. Momolianism has its origin in the first ancestors' interaction with the natural and spiritual environment at Nunuk Ragang, the legendary ancestral home of the Kadazan-Dusun.
KulintangKulintang (kolintang, kulintangan) is a modern term for an ancient instrumental form of music composed on a row of small, horizontally laid gongs that function melodically, accompanied by larger, suspended gongs and drums. As part of the larger gong-chime culture of Southeast Asia, kulintang music ensembles have been playing for many centuries in regions of the Southern Philippines, Eastern Malaysia, Eastern Indonesia, Brunei and Timor, Kulintang evolved from a simple native signaling tradition, and developed into its present form with the incorporation of knobbed gongs from Sundanese people in Java Island, Indonesia.
Tausūg (groupe ethnique)Les Tausūg ou Suluk sont un groupe ethnique des Philippines, de Malaisie et d'Indonésie. Les Tausūg font partie de l'identité politique plus large des musulmans de Mindanao, Sulu et Palawan. La plupart des Tausūg se sont convertis à l'Islam sunnite. Les Tausūg avaient à l'origine un État indépendant connu sous le nom de Sultanat de Sulu, qui exerçait jadis sa souveraineté sur les provinces actuelles de Basilan, de Palawan, de Tawi-Tawi, de Zamboanga, de l'État malaisien de Sabah et le Kalimantan du Nord en Indonésie.
Coastal Kadazan languageCoastal Kadazan, also known as Dusun Tangara, is a dialect of the Central Dusun as well as a minority language primarily spoken in Sabah, Malaysia. It is the primary dialect spoken by the Kadazan people in the west coast of Sabah especially in the districts of Penampang, Papar and Membakut (sub-district of Beaufort). The use of Coastal Kadazan has been declining due to the use of Malay by the Malaysian federal government and by the use of English by missionaries, which was done through the method of language shift enforced by the work of both the colonial and federal governments.
Filipino shamansFilipino shamans, commonly known as babaylan (also balian or katalonan, among many other names), were shamans of the various ethnic groups of the pre-colonial Philippine islands. These shamans specialized in communicating, appeasing, or harnessing the spirits of the dead and the spirits of nature. They were almost always women or feminized men (asog or bayok). They were believed to have spirit guides, by which they could contact and interact with the spirits and deities (anito or diwata) and the spirit world.
Dusun languageCentral Dusun, also known as Bunduliwan (Dusun: Boros Dusun), is an Austronesian language and one of the more widespread languages spoken by the Dusun (including Kadazan) peoples of Sabah, Malaysia. What is termed as Central Dusun (or simply Dusun) and Coastal Kadazan (or simply Kadazan) are deemed to be highly mutually intelligible to one other; many consider these to be part of a single language. Under the efforts of the Kadazandusun Cultural Association Sabah, in 1995, the central Bundu-Liwan dialect was selected to serve as the basis for a standardised "Kadazandusun" language.
