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