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Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines
Not to be confused with Tagbanwa language.
Tagabawa | |
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Native to | Philippines |
Region | Mindanao |
Native speakers | (43,000 cited 1998)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | bgs |
Glottolog | taga1272 |
Area where Tagabawa is spoken according to Ethnologue |
Tagabawa is a Manobo language of Davao City and Mount Apo in Mindanao, the Philippines. Tagabawa is spoken in Cotabato and Davao del Sur provinces, and on the slopes of Mount Apo west of Davao City,[2] The language is spoken by the Bagobo Tagabawa people.
Phonology
[edit]Consonants
[edit]Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||
Fricative | s | h | ||||
Rhotic | ɾ | |||||
Lateral | l | |||||
Approximant | w | j |
- Sounds /p, t, k, ʔ/ are heard as unreleased [p̚, t̚, k̚, ʔ̚] when in word-final position.
Vowels
[edit]Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i | ||
Mid | e | ə | o |
Open | a | ɔ |
- /e/ is heard as [ɛ] in close syllables.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Tagabawa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Ethnologue
- ^ Dubois, Carl D. & Lauretta J. (2006). Phonemic Statement of Tagabawa. Summer Institute of Linguistics: Philippines.
External links
[edit]- Tagabawa-language texts at Project Gutenberg
- Diccionario Bagobo-Español (1892) by Mateo Gisbert – from the University of Michigan Digital Collections
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