| Tatana' | |
|---|---|
| Region | Sabah |
| Ethnicity | Bisaya |
Native speakers | (21,000 cited 1982–2000)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | txx – Tatana' |
| Glottolog | tata1257 Tatana |
| Sabah Bisaya | |
|---|---|
| Region | Sabah |
| Ethnicity | Bisaya |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bsy – Sabah Bisaya |
| Glottolog | saba1267 Sabah Bisaya |
Tatana (Tatanaq) is aSabahan language spoken inSabah,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 theDusun people of Borneo. Jason Lobel (2013:360) classifies Tatana (along withPapar) asMurutic rather thanDusunic.
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive/ Affricate | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
| voiced | b | d | dʒ | ɡ | ||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
| Fricative | s | |||||
| Approximant | w | l | j | |||
| Rhotic | ɾ ~r | |||||
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Mid | (ɛ) | ə | (ɔ) |
| Open | a | ||
| Phoneme | Allophone |
|---|---|
| /ə/ | [ə], [ɛ], [œ], [ɤ], [ɔ] |
| /a/ | [ä], [æ], [ʌ] |
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