The Mangka'ak are an
indigenous ethnic group
An ethnic group or an ethnicity is a grouping of people who identify with each other on the basis of shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups. Those attributes can include common sets of traditions, ancestry, language, history, ...
residing in
Sabah, eastern
Malaysia on the island of
Borneo.
They primarily reside in the
Sandakan,
Labuk-Sugut, and
Kinabatangan
Kinabatangan ( ms, Pekan Kinabatangan) is the capital of the Kinabatangan District in the Sandakan Division of Sabah, Malaysia. Its population was estimated to be around 10,256 in 2010. Kinabatangan is mostly populated with the Orang Sungai
...
districts in northeastern Sabah. The population of Mangka'ak was estimated at 20,583 in the year 2000. They are a sub-group of the
Kadazan-Dusun, and their language (
ISO 639-3 dtb) belongs to the
Dusunic branch of the
Austronesian
Austronesian may refer to:
*The Austronesian languages
*The historical Austronesian peoples
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language family. The language is threatened with extinction, as most of the current generation use standard
Malay
Malay may refer to:
Languages
* Malay language or Bahasa Melayu, a major Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore
** History of the Malay language, the Malay language from the 4th to the 14th century
** Indonesi ...
in everyday speech.
References
Indigenous peoples of Southeast Asia
Kadazan-Dusun people
Ethnic groups in Sabah
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