Tagabawa language

Not to be confused with Tagbanwa language.

Tagabawa is a Manobo language of Davao City and Mount Apo in Mindanao, the Philippines. Tagabawa is spoken in Cotabato and Davao del Sur provinces, and on the slopes of Mount Apo west of Davao City,^[2] The language is spoken by the Bagobo Tagabawa people.

Tagabawa
Native to	Philippines
Region	Mindanao
Native speakers	(43,000 cited 1998)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Greater Central Philippine Manobo Southern Tagabawa
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bgs
Glottolog	taga1272
Area where Tagabawa is spoken according to Ethnologue

Phonology

Consonants

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

• Sounds /p, t, k, ʔ/ are heard as unreleased [p̚, t̚, k̚, ʔ̚] when in word-final position.

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i
Mid	e	ə	o
Open		a	ɔ

• /e/ is heard as [ɛ] in close syllables.^[3]