Sabahan languages

Sabahan
Sabahan
Geographic; distribution	Sabah, Borneo
Linguistic classification	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian North Bornean Sabahan; ; ;
Glottolog	saba1285

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

Languages[edit]

Blust (2010)[edit]

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

Northeast Sabahan

Southwest Sabahan

Dusunic (15)
Paitanic (4)
Murutic (7)
Tidong (5)

Lobel (2013)[edit]

Lobel (2013b, p. 47, 361) proposes the following internal classification of Southwest Sabahan, based on phonological and morphological evidence.^[1]

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

Smith (2017)[edit]

Smith (2017)^[2] proposes a North Borneo group comprising the North Sarawak, Northeast Sabah, and Southwest Sabah branches.

North Sarawak
Northeast Sabah (Bonggi, Idaanic)
Southwest Sabah
- Greater Dusunic
  - Bisaya-Lotud-Dusunic
    - Bisaya-Lotud (Sabah and Limbang Bisaya, Brunei Dusun, Lotud)
    - Dusunic (Bundu, Liwan, Tindal, Tobilung, Rungus, Kadazan, Kujau, Minokok, Dumpas, etc)
  - Paitanic (Beluran, Lingkabau, Lobu, Kuamut, Murut Serudong)
- Greater Murutic
  - Tatana
  - Papar
  - Murutic (Murut (Nabaay, Timugon, Paluan, Tagol, Kalabakan), Gana, Tingalan, Kolod, Abai, Bulusu, Tidung (Bengawong, Sumbol, Kalabakan, Mensalong, Malinau))

Footnotes[edit]

^ Lobel (2013b), pp. 36–68
^ Smith, Alexander (2017). The Languages of Borneo: A Comprehensive Classification (PDF) (Ph.D. dissertation). University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.

References[edit]

Adelaar, K. Alexander; Himmelmann, Nikolaus, eds. (2005). The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar. Oxon, UK: Routledge.
King, Julie K.; King, John Wayne, eds. (2015). Languages of Sabah: A Survey Report. Pacific Linguistics, Series C – No. 78. Canberra: Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University. doi:10.15144/PL-C78.
Lobel, Jason William (2013a). Philippine and North Bornean Languages: Issues in Description, Subgrouping, and Reconstruction (PDF) (Ph.D. dissertation). University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
Lobel, Jason William (2013b). "Southwest Sabah Revisited". Oceanic Linguistics. 52 (1): 36–68. doi:10.1353/ol.2013.0013.

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[1] Lobel (2013b), pp. 36–68

[Smith_2017-2] Smith, Alexander (2017). The Languages of Borneo: A Comprehensive Classification (PDF) (Ph.D. dissertation). University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.

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