The Tamanic languages are not closely related to other languages on Borneo. Instead, they belong to the South Sulawesi languages, most probably in one branch together with Buginese.[1][2][3]
Exclusive innovation vocabulary in the South Sulawesi language family or Buginese
There are many lexical similarities with the languages of South Sulawesi[1], for example:
Proto-Malayo-
Polynesian
Proto-South-
Sulawesi
Buginese
Embaloh
Taman
nose
*qijuŋ
*illoŋ
iŋəʔ
iŋar
iŋir
self
*diʀi
*kal-aw-e
ale
kale
?
outside
*uda
*saliwAn
saliwəŋ
saluan
saluan
tooth
*ipən
*isi
isi
isi
isi
sleep
*tuDuʀ
*tindo
tinro
tindoʔ
tindoʔ
wake up
*baŋun
*səddiŋ
səddiŋ
asadiŋ
sadiŋ
above; top
*babaw
*babo
asəʔ
aset
?
forget
*lupa
-
lilu
liluʔ
liluʔ
world
-
*lino
*lino
*lino
?
orphan
-
-
biu
biu
?
rainbow
-
-
tarauʔ
tataraʔueʔ
?
References
^ abcK. A. Adelaar. 1994. The classification of the Tamanic languages. In Tom Dutton and Darrell T. Tryon (eds.), Language contact and change in the Austronesian world, 1-42. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
^K. Alexander Adelaar and Nikolaus Himmelmann. 2005. The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar. London: Routledge.