Sabah Bisaya language

Tatana'
Sabah Bisaya
Region Sabah
Native speakers
(21,000 cited 1982–2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
txx  Tatana'
bsy  Sabah Bisaya
Glottolog tata1257  Tatana[2]
saba1267  Sabah Bisaya[3]

Tatana (Tatanaq), also known as Sabah Bisaya, is a Sabahan language spoken in Sabah, Malaysia. The two varieties are 90% intelligible. Jason Lobel (2013:360) classifies Tatana (along with Papar) as Murutic rather than Dusunic.

References

  1. Tatana' at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Sabah Bisaya at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Tatana". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Sabah Bisaya". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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