A further close blood relations between ethnic Chinese and local indigenous in northern Borneo since the early kingdoms period produced the Sino-Natives persons in Sabah as a result of inter-marriage between ethnic Chinese there and natives of Sabah. Instead of speaking Chinese languages, these community spoke the localised Sabah Malay dialect as their main lingua franca since the 14th century. The close relations is mark with earliest records of Kina term which is widely used by the indigenous Dusun to refer the Chinese ethnicity including for the Dusun homeland mountain of Mount Kinabalu (Chinese widow mountain), Kinabatangan River (Chinese river) and several other places such as the Kinabalu mountain stream of Kinataki, a small river in northeastern coast of Kinabañgun and a Chinese land in Labuan Island, the Kinabenua. The Na Tuk Kong shrine for example shown another sign of assimilation with local culture, where it refers to local Malay guardian spirits worshipped by some ethnic Chinese in West Malaysia and neighbouring Singapore and Indonesia. The term Na Tuk originated from the Malay word of Datuk (grandfather) which then merged with Kong (公, sometimes addressed as 'Kung' meaning elderly male), similar with Tu Ti Kung (), an earth deity worshipped in East Asia.