Calamian Tagbanwa language

Calamian Tagbanwa is spoken in the Calamian Islands just north of Palawan Island, Philippines. It is not mutually intelligible with the other languages of the Tagbanwa people. Ethnologue reports that it is spoken in Busuanga, Coron, Culion, and Linapacan municipalities (Calamian and Linapacan island groups).

Not to be confused with Aborlan Tagbanwa language or Central Tagbanwa language.
Calamian Tagbanwa
ᝦᝲᝨᝪᝯ, Tinagbanwa[1]
Native toPhilippines
RegionCalamian Islands
EthnicityTagbanwa people
Native speakers
10,000 (2007)[2]
Tagbanwa alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3tbk
Glottologcala1258[3]

Dialects

Himes (2006)[4] considers there to be two distinct dialects.

  • Karamiananen: spoken on Busuanga Island and Dipalengged Island. The speakers on Dipalengged Island refer to their language as Tagbanwa.
  • Tagbanwa of Coron: spoken on Coron Island, and also in Baras, Palawan Island located just opposite of Dumaran Island.

Phonology

Consonants
Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Plosive voiceless p t k ʔ
voiced b d ɡ
Nasal m n ŋ
Fricative β s ɣ
Lateral l
Rhotic ɾ~r
Approximant w j

Vowels
Front Central Back
Close i ɨ u
Open a

[5]

Grammar

Pronouns

The following set of pronouns are the pronouns found in the Calamian Tagbanwa language.[6] Note: the direct/nominative case is divided between full and short forms.

  Direct/Nominative Indirect/Genitive Oblique
1st person singular yuu/yaku (aw) u yɨɨn/yakɨn
2nd person singular yawa (a) mu nuyu
3rd person singular tanya na anya
1st person plural inclusive ita ta yatɨn
1st person plural exclusive yami (ami) yamɨn yamɨn
2nd person plural yamu (amu) mi numyu
3rd person plural tanira nira nira

References
  1. https://www.ethnologue.com/language/tbk
  2. Calamian Tagbanwa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Calamian Tagbanwa". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. Himes, Ronald S. 2006. The Kalamian Microgroup of Philippine Languages. Paper Presented at the Tenth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, 17-20 January 2006, Palawan, Philippines.
  5. Reid, Lawrence A. (1971). Philippine Minor Languages: Word Lists and Phonologies. University of Hawai'i Press. p. 42.
  6. Ruch, J. Stephen; Quakenbush, Edward. "Pronoun Ordering and Marking in Kalamianic" (PDF). Retrieved 27 May 2020. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)


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