Tatana language

Tatana'
Region	Sabah
Ethnicity	Bisaya
Native speakers	(21,000 cited 1982–2000)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Western Indonesian? Greater North Bornean? North Bornean Sabahan Southwest Murutic–Papar–Tatana Tatana'
Language codes
ISO 639-3	txx – Tatana'
Glottolog	tata1257  Tatana

Sabah Bisaya
Region	Sabah
Ethnicity	Bisaya
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Western Indonesian? Greater North Bornean? North Bornean Sabahan Southwest Dusunic–Paitanic Bisaya–Lotud–Dusunic? Bisaya–Lotud Sabah 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.

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.

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.