- Lotud
The Lotud are an indigenous
ethnic group residing inSabah , easternMalaysia on the island ofBorneo . They reside mainly in theTuaran District to as far as Kampung Sukoli,Telipok in theWest Coast Division of Sabah. Their population was estimated at 5,000 in the year 1985 but now believed to be more than 10,000. They are a sub-ethnic group of theDusun ic group, now also known asKadazandusun .The Dusunic language family is a branch under the Malayo-Polynesian group of Languages, which is a branch of the Austronesian stock of languages (
ISO 639-3 dtr). About 20% of the population has been converted to mostly catholicism and some to evangelical Christianity, with a dwindling number are stillanimists . Less than 20 traditional priestesses are still alive, with no prospect of future replacement.
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