Western Bukidnon language

Western Bukidnon
	Western Bukidnon Manobo
Native to	Philippines
Region	mostly in southwestern portions of Northern Mindanao region, Mindanao
Native speakers	15,000 (2008)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Greater Central Philippine Manobo Central West Western Bukidnon; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mbb
Glottolog	west2555[2]

Western Bukidnon is a Manobo language of Mindanao in the Philippines. Dialects are Ilentungen, Kiriyenteken, and Pulangiyen.

Distribution

Western Bukidnon is spoken in (Ethnologue):

Southern Bukidnon Province: Dangcagan, Don Carlos, Kitaotao, and especially Maramag municipalities
Cotabato Province: Banisilan municipality

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

Elkins, Richard Ewell (1967). Major grammatical patterns of Western Bukidnon Manobo (Ph.D. thesis). University of Hawaii. hdl:10125/11706.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Elkins, Richard E. (1970). Major grammatical patterns of Western Bukidnon Manobo. Summer Institute of Linguistics.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) - published version of Elkins's 1967 dissertation

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