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.
Phonology
Consonants
- /ɾ/ may also be heard as a trill [r].
- Stop sounds /p, t, k/ and /b, d, ɡ/ are heard as unreleased [C̚] in word-final positions.[2]
Vowels
| Phoneme
|
Allophone
|
| /ə/
|
[ə], [ɛ], [œ], [ɤ], [ɔ]
|
| /a/
|
[ä], [æ], [ʌ]
|
References
- ^ Tatana' at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Dillon, John Albert (1994). A Grammatical Description of Tatana'. University of Texas at Arlington.
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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.