Tadyawan language

Tadyawan
Native to Philippines
Region Oriental Mindoro
Native speakers
4,200 (2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 tdy
Glottolog tady1237[2]

The Tadyawan language is a language spoken by Mangyans in the southern Lake Naujan in Oriental Mindoro, Philippines.

Dialects

Tweddell (1970:195)[3] lists 4 dialects.

  • Nauhan
  • East Aglubang
  • West Aglubang
  • Pola

Nauhan and East Aglubang are close to each other. The West Aglubang is spoken farthest out and has strong Alangan influence.

Barbian (1977)[4] lists the following locations.

References

  1. Tadyawan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tadyawan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Tweddell, Colin E. 1970. “The Identity and Distribution of the Mangyan Tribes of Mindoro, Philippines”. Anthropological Linguistics 12 (6).
  4. Barbian, Karl-Josef. 1977. English-Mangyan vocabulary. Cebu City: University of San Carlos.


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