Tatana' | |
Region: | Sabah |
Ethnicity: | Bisaya |
Speakers: | 21,000 |
Date: | 1982–2000 |
Ref: | e18 |
Familycolor: | Austronesian |
Fam2: | Malayo-Polynesian |
Fam3: | Western Indonesian? |
Fam4: | Greater North Bornean? |
Fam5: | North Bornean |
Fam6: | Sabahan |
Fam7: | Southwest |
Fam8: | Murutic–Papar–Tatana |
Lc1: | txx |
Ld1: | Tatana' |
Glotto: | tata1257 |
Glottoname: | Tatana |
Sabah Bisaya | |
Region: | Sabah |
Ethnicity: | Bisaya |
Familycolor: | Austronesian |
Fam2: | Malayo-Polynesian |
Fam3: | Western Indonesian? |
Fam4: | Greater North Bornean? |
Fam5: | North Bornean |
Fam6: | Sabahan |
Fam7: | Southwest |
Fam8: | Dusunic–Paitanic |
Fam9: | Bisaya–Lotud–Dusunic? |
Fam10: | Bisaya–Lotud |
Lc1: | bsy |
Ld1: | Sabah Bisaya |
Glotto: | saba1267 |
Glottoname: | Sabah Bisaya |
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.