The Consultant

The recordings of the North Wind and Sun passage and the word lists were made by a 54-year-old male native speaker of Dusun who is from Batang Mitus village, about 20 km from the coast in Tutong District. He grew up speaking Dusun exclusively and only learned to speak Malay in primary school. He now speaks Dusun with family members and friends, but not with his wife (who is not Dusun) or children with whom he always speaks English.

Map 1. The location of Batang Mitus in Tutong District (adapted from Noor Azam, McLellan & Deterding, 2016, p. 10, Fig. 2.1).