Tatana'
Sabah Bisaya
RegionSabah
EthnicityBisaya
Native speakers
(21,000 cited 1982–2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
txx  Tatana'
bsy  Sabah Bisaya
Glottologtata1257  Tatana
saba1267  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.

References

  1. Tatana' at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Sabah Bisaya at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

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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