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Sabahan languages

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Geographic distribution
  
Sabah, Borneo

Linguistic classification
  
Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian North Bornean Sabahan

Glottolog
  
nort3172  (Northeast Sabahan) sout3154  (Southwest Sabahan)

The Sabahan languages are a group of Austronesian languages centered on the Bornean province of Sabah.

Contents

Blust (2010)

The constituents are separated into two families in Blust (2010):

Northeast Sabahan
  • Banggi (2)
  • Ida’anic
    • Southwest Sabahan
  • Dusunic (15)
  • Paitanic (4)
  • Murutic (7)
  • Tidong (5)

    • Lobel (2013)

    Lobel (2013, p. 47, 361) proposes the following internal classification of Southwest Sabahan, based on phonological and morphological evidence.

  • Greater Dusunic
  • Dusunic
  • Bisaya-Lotud
  • Paitanic
  • Greater Murutic
  • Murutic
  • Tatana
  • Papar

    • Lobel (2013:367-368) lists the following Proto-Southwest Sabahan phonological innovations that were developed from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian. (Note: PSWSAB stands for Proto-Southwest Sabahan, while PMP stands for Proto-Malayo-Polynesian.)

  • PMP *h > PSWSAB Ø
  • PMP *a > PSWSAB *ə / _# (possibly be an areal feature in Sabah or northern Borneo, since this is also found in Idaanic)
  • PMP *R > PSWSAB *h / (a,i,u)_(a,ə,u)
  • PMP *R > PSWSAB *g / ə_
  • PMP *-m- > ø in PSWSAB reflexes of the PMP pronoun forms *kami ‘1EXCL.NOM’, *mami ‘1EXCL.GEN’, and *kamu ‘2PL.NOM’
  • Reduction of most PMP consonant clusters to either singletons or prenasalized clusters

    • References

    Sabahan languages Wikipedia
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