THE FIRST STUDENT TO MASTER THE KDM GAGARIT “abada”

DR MOHD ZAKARIA ILYAS’s FIRST STUDENT TO MASTER THE GAGARIT “abada” (KDM Alphabets) – WITZER UNIQUE

Pride goes to the KDM people for the birth of a man like Witzer Unique who I can put number one to have given great support to the creation or invention of the KDM Gagarit “abada” by Dr Mohd Zakaria Ilyas (pic A) of Kampung Tagudon Lama, Ranau Sabah Malaysia. I am very much impressed with this quotation by Wilter Unique (pic B):

“Sesungguhnya, Gagarit do Dusun adalah harta yang kita akan wariskan kepada generasi KDM. Tamadun Mesir telah memberikan heroglif, Sumeria telah memperkenalkan ideogram, China pula menggunakan piktograf sementara tamadun Yunani  menggunakan Phoenicia. Kini, melalui anugerah yang disampaikan oleh Pencipta kepada Dr Mohd. Zakaria Ilyas, giliran kita berkongsi Gagarit do Dusun sebagai satu sumbangan abadi Kadazandusun terhadap ketamadunan manusia sejagat.”

         With this patriotic characters of a man, we could see that the existence of the KDM on the earth would exist, excel and stand forever by treasuring this quotation and presenting it to every newly born KDM. What is our part? What is our subscription? And what benefits we get? To answer the first question, I would say that our part is to learn and teach our children to write and read in our own “abada”. Our most important subscriptions are to preserve and promote this “abada as a tataba” and to uphold as our own (KDM) property and as a global symbol of the KDM race. The answer of the third question is the God  has given Dr Zakaria Ilyas the brain to invent the Gagarit abada for the KDM people.

I wholly support Dr Mohd Zakaria Ilyas on his work inventing the “abada”  and to Witzer Unique’s great concern and pride on the birth of this KDM alphabets, I salute you. I would like to propose the two of you to “miangkawit longon” to set up a KDM Linguistic School where this “Gagarit” can be taught to KDM people regardless of their ages and sexes. I had examined and read the  “Huminodun” story and the “sundait” written by Witzer Unique and state here that Witzer Unique has mastered writing using the “abada”. I had a personal discussion with Dr Mohd Zakaria Ilyas relating to this subject and he said “I need at least ten people who could master writing and reading in the KDM gagarit in order to set up a school and I invite anyone or all those who are keen to learn, to come to me to learn to write and read in the KDM gagarit abada”. I think it’s not that difficult to learn writing and reading this “abada”. At first I thought it was too hard but once Dr Mohd Zakaria Ilyas explained me how to read and write I found it simple. The only work we have to do is to practice writing and memorizing the letters. Once you memorized the letters you can go on writing easily because the writing is similar to the English writing system which starts from the left to the right.