Tatana (Tatanaq) is a

Sabahan language The Sabahan languages are a group of Austronesian languages centered on the Bornean province of Sabah. Languages Blust (2010) The constituents are separated into two families in Blust (2010): ;Northeast Sabahan *Bonggi * Ida’an ;Southwest ...

spoken in

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. 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

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) as Murutic rather than Dusunic.

References

*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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