PENAMPANG, Jan. 2 -- The Webonary Timugon Murut Dictionary application was launched during the Cultural Night of the Third Malaysian Indigenous People's Conference on Education 2025 (MIPCE 3) here on December 13, marking a new chapter for the language's preservation.

Organising committee chairman and officiating guest Rita Lasimbang said the digital launch reflected a long "river's flow" journey, symbolising decades of quiet, sustained effort to document and safeguard the Timugon Murut language.

She said the work began with the late development of a physical dictionary by Summer Institute of Linguistics fieldworkers Richard and Kielo Brewis, who coordinated the project from 1983 to 1997 before returning to Finland.

Rita said the effort...