Palawanic languages

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Palawanic
Geographic
distribution
Palawan, Philippines
Linguistic classification Austronesian
Proto-languageProto-Palawanic
Language codes
Glottolog pala1354

The Palawanic languages are a subgroup in the Greater Central Philippine-family spoken on the island of Palawan and nearby islets.

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Languages

Palawanic [red] languages of Palawan Palawanic and Kalamian languages.png
Palawanic [red] languages of Palawan

The Palawanic languages are:

Molbog may also be in this group, closest to Palawano. [3] [4] Ethnologue classifies Bonggi as Palawanic. [5]

Reconstruction

Proto-Palawanic has been reconstructed by Thiessen (1980). [3]

References

  1. 1 2 Lobel, Jason William (2013). Philippine and North Bornean languages: Issues in Description, Subgrouping, and Reconstruction (PDF) (Ph.D. thesis). University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.
  2. Reid, Lawrence A. (2018). "Modeling the Linguistic Situation in the Philippines". In Kikusawa, Ritsuko; Reid, Lawrence A. (eds.). Let’s Talk about Trees: Genetic Relationships of Languages and Their Phylogenic Representation. Senri Ethnological Studies, 98. pp. 91–105. doi:10.15021/00009006.
  3. 1 2 Thiessen, Henry Arnold (1980). Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Palawan' (MA thesis). University of Texas at Arlington.
  4. Smith, Alexander (2017). The Languages of Borneo: A Comprehensive Classification (PDF) (Ph.D. thesis). University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2023-07-20. Retrieved 2020-05-23.
  5. Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2023). Ethnologue: Languages of the World (Twenty-sixth ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International.

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