Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
Manobo languages
Subgroup of the Austronesian language family From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remove ads
The Manobo languages are a group of languages spoken in the Philippines. Their speakers are primarily located around Northern Mindanao, Central Mindanao (presently called Soccsksargen) and Caraga regions where they are natively spoken. Some outlying groups make Manobo geographically discontiguous as other speakers can be located as far as the southern peninsula of Davao Oriental, most of Davao Occidental and coastal areas of Sultan Kudarat. The Kagayanen speakers are the most extremely remote and can be found in certain portions of Palawan.
Remove ads
Remove ads
Languages
- Central
- East: Dibabawon, Rajah Kabunsuwan, Agusan
- South: Ata, Matigsalug (Tigwa); Obo
- West: Western Bukidnon, Ilianen
- North: Binukid, Kagayanen, Higaonon, Kinamigin
- South: Tagabawa, Sarangani, Cotabato
Classification
Elkins (1974:637) classifies the Manobo languages as follows.
- Manobo
- Northern
- Cagayano (of Cagayancillo Island)
- Kinamigin (of Camiguin Island), Binukid (of central Mindanao)
- Northern
Remove ads
Reconstruction
Elkins (1974) includes a reconstruction of Proto-Manobo, along with 197 reconstructed etyma.
The Proto-Manobo phonemes are (Elkins 1974:616):
- Consonants
*p | *t | *k | *ʔ |
*b | *d | *g | |
*m | *n | *ŋ | |
*l | |||
*r | |||
*s | *h | ||
*w | *y |
- Vowels
*i | *u |
*e | |
*a |
See also
References
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads