[5][6] This dialect, spoken in the Bundu and Liwan valleys of the Crocker-Trusmadi ranges (now parts of the present-day districts of Ranau, Tambunan and Keningau), was selected as it was deemed to be the most mutually intelligible when conversing with other "Dusun" or "Kadazan" dialects.
Tindal Dusun[8] has a Philippine-type focus system of syntax that makes one particular noun phrase in a sentence the most prominent.
This prominent, focused noun phrase does not need to be the subject or the agent of the clause.
[11] PoposidangdryokuIparai.ricePoposidang oku parai.dry I riceI dry rice.It is, however, possible for a grammatically correct Dusun sentence to be SVO.
}all children school given uniformAll students have been given uniforms.To form numbers such as fifty or sixty, a multiplier is combined with a positional unit (tens, hundreds, thousands etc.
The names for the days of the week are mostly based on a simple numerical sequence, which is commonly used for media and newspapers.
[citation needed] The names of Dusun days as part of the seven-day week derive from the life cycle of a butterfly.
[14] Tangit, Trixie M. (May 2005), Planning Kadazandusun (Sabah, Malaysia): Labels, Identity and Language, Mānoa: University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Robinson, Laura C. (2005), "A sketch grammar of Tindal Dusun", University of Hawaiʻi Working Papers in Linguistics, vol.