Cotabato Manobo language

Cotabato Manobo
Region	Sultan Kudarat, Mindanao, the Philippines
Native speakers	30,000 (2007)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Greater Central Philippine Manobo South Cotabato Manobo; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Tasaday;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mta
Glottolog	cota1241[2]

Cotabato Manobo (Dulangan Manobo) is a Manobo language spoken in Mindanao, the Philippines. Dialects include Tasaday and Blit.

Distribution

Cotabato Manobo is spoken in (Ethnologue):

/i u/ are realized as [ɪ ʊ] in closed syllables.
/ɛ/ is realized as [e] when it is preceded by /k/ and in an open syllable.
/a/ is realized as [ɜ] when it is followed by /h/ or /ʔ/.
/ɔ/ is realized as [ɒ] when it is followed by /h/, /ʔ/, or /ɡ/, or when word-initial and followed by /k/. For some speakers it may also be realized as [ɒ] before or after /k/ when not word-initial.

		Labial	Coronal	Dorsal	Glottal
Nasal		m	n	ŋ
Stop	voiced	b	d	ɡ
Stop	voiceless		t	k	ʔ
Fricative		ɸ	s		h
Approximant		w	l	j

↑ Cotabato Manobo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Cotabato Manobo". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Harland Kerr (1988). "Cotabato Manobo grammar". Studies in Philippine Linguistics. 7 (1): 1&ndash, 123.

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