Aborlan Tagbanwa language

Not to be confused with Central Tagbanwa language or Calamian Tagbanwa language.

Aborlan Tagbanwa is spoken on Palawan Island in the Philippines. It is not mutually intelligible with the other languages of the Tagbanwa people.

Aborlan Tagbanwa
Native to	Philippines
Region	Palawan
Ethnicity	Tagbanwa people
Native speakers	17,000 (2005)[1] 500 monolingual (2002)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Greater Central Philippine Palawanic Aborlan Tagbanwa
Writing system	Tagbanwa script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tbw
Glottolog	tagb1258

Phonology

Consonants

Aborlan Tagbanwa consonants^[2]

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	voiceless	p	t		k	ʔ
	voiced	b	d		ɡ
Nasal		m	n		ŋ
Fricative			s			h
Lateral			l
Rhotic			ɾ~r
Approximant		w		j

Vowels

Aborlan Tagbanwa vowels^[2]

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i	ɨ	u
Open		a

Grammar

Pronouns

The following table contains the pronouns found in the Aborlan Tagbanwa language. Note: some forms are divided between full and short forms.

Aborlan Tagbanwa pronouns^[3]

	Direct/Nominative	Indirect/Genitive	Oblique
1st person singular	aku	ku	aken
2nd person singular	ikaw (ka)	mu	imu
3rd person singular	kanya	ya	kanya
1st person plural inclusive	kita (ta)	tami (ta)	aten
1st person plural exclusive	kami	namen	amen
2nd person plural	kamu	mu	imyu
3rd person plural	kanya	nira	kanira