Palawan Batak language

Batak
	Palawan Batak
Native to	Philippines
Region	Palawan
Ethnicity	2,040 (1990 census)[1]
Native speakers	200 (2000)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Greater Central Philippine Palawan Batak; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Tagbanwa alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bya
Glottolog	bata1301[2]

Batak is a Negrito language spoken on Palawan Island in the Philippines. It is sometimes disambiguated from the Batak languages as Palawan Batak.

Batak is spoken in the communities of Babuyan, Maoyon, Tanabag, Langogan, Tagnipa, Caramay, and Buayan (Lobel 2013:87). Surrounding languages including Southern Tagbanwa, Central Tagbanwa, Kuyonon, and Agutaynen.

References

1 2 Batak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Batak". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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[e18-1] 1 2 Batak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Batak". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.