Sabahan languages

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Sabahan
Geographic
distribution		Sabah, Borneo
Linguistic classificationAustronesian
Glottolognort3172  (Northeast Sabahan)
sout3154  (Southwest Sabahan)

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

Languages[]

Blust (2010)[]

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

Northeast Sabahan
Southwest Sabahan
  • Dusunic (15)
  • Paitanic (4)
  • Murutic (7)
  • Tidong (5)

Lobel (2013)[]

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)[]

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[]

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

References[]

  • 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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