Manobo languages

Manobo
Banobo
Geographic
distribution		 central Mindanao
Linguistic classification Austronesian
Subdivisions
  • Central
  • North
  • West
ISO 639-2 / 5 mno
Glottolog mano1276[1]
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Geographic extent of Manobo languages based on Ethnologue maps

The Manobo languages are a group of languages spoken in the Philippines. All go by the name Manobo or Banobo. 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, southern parts of Davao del Sur and coastal areas of Sultan Kudarat. The Kagayanen speakers are the most extremely remote and can be found in certain portions of Palawan.

Languages

Classification

Elkins (1974:637) classifies the Manobo languages as follows.

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

  1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Manobo". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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