Tatana language

Sabah Bisaya
Sabah Bisaya
Region	Sabah
Ethnicity	Bisaya
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Western Indonesian? Greater North Bornean? North Bornean Sabahan Southwest Dusunic–Paitanic Bisaya–Lotud–Dusunic? Bisaya–Lotud Sabah Bisaya; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	; bsy – Sabah Bisaya
Glottolog	saba1267 Sabah Bisaya

Tatana'
Tatana'
Region	Sabah
Ethnicity	Bisaya
Native speakers	(21,000 cited 1982–2000)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Western Indonesian? Greater North Bornean? North Bornean Sabahan Southwest Murutic–Papar–Tatana Tatana'; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	; txx – Tatana'
Glottolog	tata1257 Tatana

Tatana (Tatanaq) is a Sabahan language spoken in Sabah, Malaysia. Due to limited studies, it is hard to ascertain whether Tatana requires a category on its own or is considered a Bisaya variety based on its 90% linguistic intelligibility with the closely related Bisaya ethnic in Sabah. The current speakers of Tatana identify themselves as an ethnic subgroup of the Dusun people of Borneo. Jason Lobel (2013:360) classifies Tatana (along with Papar) as Murutic rather than Dusunic.

References

^ Tatana' at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

Lobel, Jason William. 2013. Philippine and North Bornean languages: issues in description, subgrouping, and reconstruction. Ph.D. dissertation. Manoa: University of Hawai'i at Manoa.

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