Tatana language
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.
| Tatana' | |
|---|---|
| Sabah Bisaya | |
| Region | Sabah |
| Ethnicity | Bisaya |
Native speakers | (21,000 cited 1982–2000)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either:txx – Tatana'bsy – Sabah Bisaya |
| Glottolog | tata1257 Tatanasaba1267 Sabah Bisaya |
References
- Tatana' at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Sabah Bisaya 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.
Further reading
- Pekkanen, Inka; Dunn Chan, Phyllis A.; Dillon, John A. (1998). Buuk do tinulisan do talu bansa' gia' = Buku frasa tiga bahasa = A trilingual phrase book; Tatana' - Bahasa Malaysia - English. Kota Kinabalu, Sabah: Jabatan Muzium Sabah. ISBN 9789839638196.
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