Calamian languages

Calamian
Geographic
distribution
islands between Mindoro and Palawan
Linguistic classification Austronesian
Glottolog kala1389[1]

The Calamian languages (also spelled Kalamian) are a small cluster of languages spoken in the Philippines:

Calamian Tagbanwa and Agutaynen.[2]

These are among the few languages of the Philippines which continue to be written in indigenous scripts, though mostly for poetry.

Classification

The Calamian languages are a primary branch of the Philippine language family.[3]

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kalamian". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Another language called Tagbanwa, Aborlan Tagbanwa, is one of the Palawan languages.
  3. Blust, Robert (1991). "The Greater Central Philippines hypothesis". Oceanic Linguistics. 30 (2): 73–129. doi:10.2307/3623084. JSTOR 3623084.

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