Tatana language

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

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