Sabahan languages
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 :
;Northeast Sabahan
;Southwest Sabahan
- Dusunic
- Paitanic
- Murutic
- Tidong
Lobel 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 lists the following Proto-Southwest Sabahan phonological innovations that were developed from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian.
- PMP *h > PSWSAB Ø
- PMP *a > PSWSAB *ə / _#
- PMP *R > PSWSAB *h / _
- 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 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
- Southwest Sabah
- *Greater Dusunic
- **Bisaya-Lotud-Dusunic
- ***Bisaya-Lotud
- ***Dusunic
- **Paitanic
- *Greater Murutic
- **Tatana
- **Papar
- **Murutic, Gana, Tingalan, Kolod, Abai, Bulusu, Tidung )
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