Kadazan Translation

Pogun di Aki Maragang

Nombo pogun diti? Om iisai zi Aki Maragang? Nokuo tu aanangan zou do monusuzan kokomoi diti?

Dati do ogumu nokoongou kokomoi do Pulou Borneo. Borneo nopo nga kumotohu pulou tagazo kozo id vinoun om ii tagazo no kozo id Kabaatan-Kohisaon Asia (Wikipedia). Nabaagi o Borneo do apat ii au mogi-aga ginazo. I tagazo nopo kozo nga Kalimantan ii poinsuang Pogun Indonesia. Sabah - pungaanan haid do North Borneo - nopo nga ponong koibutan Borneo naamot do id koibutan-kotonobon nopo nga Sarawak om Brunei. Sabah om Sarawak nopo nga pogun minsoosondii ii poimpuu id Sinompuuvan Pogun Malaysia. I nopo puu suvai nga Malaya. Nakahabus no o Singapore.

Pogun Aki Maragang nopo nga o-ium id North Borneo - Sabah do baino. Pogun Sabah nimaan polintao do North Borneo Chartered Company. Na-aau om nopolinta do Jipun toluu-ai o North Borneo poguhu do nadadi do koloni do Bolitis. Iti no pogun di Aki Maragang.

Komozon nopo do "Aki" nga komohoingan kusai. Zi Maragang no ii ngaan di komohoingan kusai do Kadazan om Dusun di tahaid no kozo do noihaan. Hobi ogumu do oboos do tiinu kokomoi do ingkuo boos "Dusun" do nadadi.

Poingizon zi Maragang om tohu tanak kusai om tanak tondu tontoisoon dau id duuk do Nuhu Nabahu, nuhu di takavas no kozo doid Kabaatan-Kohisaon Asia. Noboos do tuminongkop o tanak ngaavi disido doid mogisuvai-suvai kinoizonon id North Borneo (Koibutan Borneo).

Nokuo tu monuat zou do blog kokomoi di Maragang om tana pogun di sinakagon ngaavi disido?

Ogumu otumbazaan do tanak totuo disido (Maragang) pinakaazan doid koibutan North Borneo poinghiput do Kudat. Sinakagon di tanak kusai koduvo, zi Rongguvai, tuminongkop id sokid, id kohisaon gisom do doiho id Lahad Datu. Zi Tomui, tanak kusai kotohu, pinakaazan doid Penampang, buzu no doid Papar om pakaazai no vagu doid Matunggung. I tanak tondu tontoisoon, zi Sayap, nakakaa doid Kota Belud.

Tumanud do susuzan diti, kivaa do zaa ku sabaagi sinakagon di Tomui om di Rongguvai, maza di komohoingan di ama om di ina ku. Duuduvo dii mohoing di ama ku do kotulunan di Tomui naamot do kotulunan di Rongguvai o komohoingan di ina ku.

Iti no sabap kozo nokuo tu monuat zou blog kokomoi ahal diti.

Land Of Aki Maragang

Where is this land? And who is Aki Maragang? Why am I interested in writing about this topic?

Perhaps many have heard about the Island of Borneo. Borneo is the third largest island in the world and the largest island in Asia (Wikipedia). Borneo is divided into four unequal parts. The largest is Kalimantan which is part of Indonesia. Sabah - formerly North Borneo - is found on the northernmost part whilst Sarawak and Brunei are on the north-western part of Borneo. Sabah and Sarawak are member nations of the Federation of Malaysia. The other remaining member is Malaya. Singapore had left the Federation in 1965

Aki Maragang land is found in North Borneo, now Sabah. North Borneo was a nation ruled by the British North Borneo Chartered Company. It was conquered and ruled for a while by the Japanese before it became a colony of the United Kingdom. This is Aki Maragang's land.

"Aki" in the Kadazan Language is great male ancestor. Maragang is the name of the earliest known ancestor of the Kadazan and Dusun people. More will be said later on how the word "Dusun" name came about.

Maragang and his family of three sons and one daughter lived at the foothills of Mount Kinabalu, the highest mountain in Southeast Asia. It is said that his children migrated to different part of North Borneo. There are more than thirty tribes which are said to be the descendants of Maragang.

Why am I blogging about Maragang and the land of his descendants? Many believed, the eldest son, Runsud, went northwards to the land around Kudat. The descendants of the second son, Rongguvai, peopled the interior, the land to the east and as far away as Lahad Datu. Tomui, the third son, migrated to Penampang, then moved to Papar and then to Matunggung. Sayap, the only daughter, went to Kota Belud.


Based on this narrative, I have the blood of both Tomui and Rongguvai, on my father's and mother's family line respectively. Both of my father's parents were descended from Tomui whilst my mother's parents were descended from Rongguvai blood line.

This is the main reason why I am blogging about this matter.

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