Greater Central Philippine languages

Greater Central Philippine
Geographic
distribution		 Philippines
Northern Sulawesi, Indonesia
Linguistic classification Austronesian
Subdivisions
Glottolog grea1284[1]

The Greater Central Philippine languages are a proposed subgroup of the Austronesian language family. They are spoken in the central and southern parts of the Philippines, and in northern Sulawesi.[2] This subgroup was first proposed by Robert Blust (1991) based on lexical and phonological evidence,[2] and is accepted by most specialists in the field.[3][4][5][6]

Most of the major languages of the Philippines belong to the Greater Central Philippine subgroup: Tagalog, the Visayan languages Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Waray; Central Bikol, Maranao and Magindanao.[7] On the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia, Gorontalo is the third-largest language by number of speakers.[8]

History

According to Blust, the current distribution of the Greater Central Philippine languages is the result of an expansion that occurred around 500 B.C. and which led to levelling of much of the linguistic diversity in the central and southern Philippine area, leaving Ati, the North Mangyan languages, the Kalamian languages and the South Mindanao languages as remnants of this earlier diversity.[2]

Classification

The Greater Central Philippine subgroup comprises the following microgroups:[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Greater Central Philippine". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Blust, Robert (1991). "The Greater Central Philippines hypothesis". Oceanic Linguistics. 30 (2): 73–129. doi:10.2307/3623084. JSTOR 3623084.
  3. ↑ Lobel, Jason William. (2013). Philippine and North Bornean languages: issues in description, subgrouping, and reconstruction. Ph.D. dissertation. Manoa: University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
  4. ↑ Reid, Lawrence A. (2018). "Modeling the linguistic situation in the Philippines." In Let's Talk about Trees, ed. by Ritsuko Kikusawa and Lawrence A. Reid. Osaka: Senri Ethnological Studies, Minpaku. doi:10.15021/00009006
  5. ↑ Smith, Alexander D. (2017). "The Western Malayo-Polynesian Problem". Oceanic Linguistics. 56 (2): 435–490. doi:10.1353/ol.2017.0021.
  6. ↑ Himes, Robert S. (2002). "The Relationship of Umiray Dumaget to Other Philippine Languages". Oceanic Linguistics. 41 (2): 275–294. JSTOR 3623311.
  7. ↑ "Ethnologue report for Philippines". www.ethnologue.com.
  8. ↑ "Ethnologue report for Indonesia (Sulawesi)". www.ethnologue.com.
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