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Agusan language

Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Agusan is a Manobo language of northeastern Mindanao in the Philippines.

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Distribution and dialects

Agusan Manobo (consisting of the Umayam, Adgawan, Surigao, and Omayamnon dialects) is spoken in the following areas.[2]

Dibabawon Manobo is spoken in the following areas.[2]

Rajah Kabunsuwan Manobo is spoken in the following areas.[2]

The Omayamnon, Dibabawon, and Rajah Kabunsuwan dialects are divergent.

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Phonology

Consonants

In Agusan, the stops have unreleased variants when occurring before another consonant, silence, and in syllable-final position.[3] The glottal stop /ʔ/ occurs in all consonant positions.[3] Of the continuants, all occur in syllable-initial position and all except /h/ in word-final position. The consonants /d/ and /j/ are used interchangeably.[3]

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Vowels

Agusan has only five vowels, /i/, /u/, /e/, /æ/, and /a/. Vowels may appear alone, after a consonant, or between consonants in a syllable. All vowels, with the exception of /æ/, may occur "in a sequence of identical vowels separated by a glottal stop". The vowel /e/ never occurs next to the consonant /r/.[3]

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References

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