Calamian languages

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Calamian
Geographic
distribution
islands between Mindoro and Palawan
Linguistic classification Austronesian
Glottolog kala1389 [1]

The Calamian languages (also spelled Kalamian) are a small cluster of languages spoken in the Philippines: Calamian Tagbanwa and Agutaynen. Other languages called Tagbanwa, the Aborlan Tagbanwa language and Central Tagbanwa language are one of the Palawan languages.

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These are among the few languages of the Philippines which continue to be written in indigenous scripts, though mostly for poetry.[ citation needed ]

Classification

The Calamian languages are a primary branch of the Philippine language family. [2]

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References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kalamian". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Blust, Robert (1991). "The Greater Central Philippines hypothesis". Oceanic Linguistics. 30 (2): 73–129. doi:10.2307/3623084. JSTOR   3623084.

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