Calamian Tagbanwa language

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Calamian Tagbanwa
ᝦᝲᝨᝪᝯ, Tinagbanwa [1]
Native to Philippines
Region Calamian Islands
Ethnicity Tagbanwa people
Native speakers
10,000 (2007) [2]
Tagbanwa alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3 tbk
Glottolog cala1258

Calamian Tagbanwa is spoken in the Calamian Islands just north of Palawan Island, Philippines. It is not mutually intelligible with the other languages of the Tagbanwa people. Ethnologue reports that it is spoken in Busuanga, Coron, Culion, and Linapacan municipalities (Calamian and Linapacan island groups).

Contents

Dialects

Himes (2006) [3] considers there to be two distinct dialects.

Phonology

Consonants

Calamian Tagbanwa consonants [4]
Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m n ŋ
Plosive voiceless p t k ʔ
voiced b d ɡ
Fricative β s ɣ
Lateral l
Rhotic ɾ ~ r
Approximant w j

Vowels

Calamian Tagbanwa vowels [4]
Front Central Back
Close i ɨ u
Open a

Grammar

Pronouns

The following set of pronouns are the pronouns found in the Calamian Tagbanwa language. Note: the direct/nominative case is divided between full and short forms.

Calamian Tagbanwa pronouns [5]
 Direct/NominativeIndirect/GenitiveOblique
1st person singularyuu/yaku (aw)uyɨɨn/yakɨn
2nd person singularyawa (a)munuyu
3rd person singulartanyanaanya
1st person plural inclusiveitatayatɨn
1st person plural exclusiveyami (ami)yamɨnyamɨn
2nd person pluralyamu (amu)minumyu
3rd person pluraltaniraniranira

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References

  1. "Tagbanwa, Calamian". Ethnologue.
  2. Calamian Tagbanwa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  3. Himes, Ronald S. (2006). The Kalamian Microgroup of Philippine Languages (PDF). Paper presented at the Tenth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, 17–20 January 2006, Puerto Princesa City, Palawan, Philippines.
  4. 1 2 Reid, Lawrence A. (1971). Philippine Minor Languages: Word Lists and Phonologies. University of Hawai'i Press. p. 42.
  5. Ruch, J. Stephen; Quakenbush, Edward (2006). Pronoun Ordering and Marking in Kalamianic (PDF). Paper presented at the Tenth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, 17–20 January 2006, Puerto Princesa City, Palawan, Philippines. Retrieved 27 May 2020.