Teacher Lenzely Salimin is on a mission to revive the Kadazandusun people’s love for their own tongue, and then to spread knowledge about this indigenous language.
Lenzely did not start not start out with this passion, but fell into it after being appointed ambassador of the Kadazandusun language by the Sabah Cultural Board, two years ago at the age of 25.
Family ambassador Matthew Pajares-Yngson says they are ‘heartbroken’ as fisherfolk community has lived there for centuries, considers it their ancestral land
