Sabahan languages

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|region=Northern Borneo

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|fam2=Malayo-Polynesian

|fam3=Greater North Bornean?

|fam4=North Bornean

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|glottorefname=Sabahan

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The Sabahan languages are a group of Austronesian languages mostly concentrated in the Malaysian state of Sabah, but also extended into neighbouring Sarawak of Malaysia, North Kalimantan of Indonesia, and the sovereign state of Brunei.

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.{{harvp|Lobel|2013b|pages=36–68}}

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){{Cite thesis |last=Smith |first=Alexander |title=The Languages of Borneo: A Comprehensive Classification |date=2017 |type=Ph.D. dissertation |publisher=University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa |url=http://ling.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/SMITH_Alexander_Final_Dissertation.pdf |language=en}} proposes a North Borneo group comprising the North Sarawak, Northeast Sabah, and Southwest Sabah branches.

North Sarawak
Bintulu
Berawan–Lower Baram
Dayic
Kenyah
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

References

{{Cite book |title=The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar |date=2005 |publisher=Routledge |editor-last=Adelaar |editor-first=K. Alexander |editor-last2=Himmelmann |editor-first2=Nikolaus |location=Oxon, UK |language=en}}
{{Cite book |title=Languages of Sabah: A Survey Report |publisher=Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University |year=2015 |editor-last=King |editor-first=Julie K. |editor-last2=King |editor-first2=John Wayne |series=Pacific Linguistics, Series C – No. 78 |location=Canberra |doi=10.15144/PL-C78 |doi-access=free |language=en}}
{{Cite thesis |last=Lobel |first=Jason William |title=Philippine and North Bornean Languages: Issues in Description, Subgrouping, and Reconstruction |date=2013a |type=Ph.D. dissertation |publisher=University of Hawai'i at Manoa |url=http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/graduate/Dissertations/JasonLobelFinal.pdf |language=en}}
{{Cite journal |last=Lobel |first=Jason William |date=2013b |title=Southwest Sabah Revisited |journal=Oceanic Linguistics |volume=52 |issue=1 |pages=36–68 |doi=10.1353/ol.2013.0013 |language=en}}