Central Tagbanwa | |
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Native to | Philippines |
Region | Palawan |
Ethnicity | Tagbanwa people |
Native speakers | (2,000 cited 1985) [1] |
Austronesian
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Tagbanwa script | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
tgt |
Glottolog |
cent2090 |
ELP | Central Tagbanwa |
Central Tagbanwa is spoken on Palawan Island in the Philippines. It is not mutually intelligible with the other languages of the Tagbanwa people.
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||
Fricative | β | s | h | |||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
Lateral | l | |||||
Rhotic | ɾ | |||||
Approximant | w | j |
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i | ɨ | u |
Open | a |
The following set of pronouns are the personal pronouns found in the Central Tagbanwa language. Note: some forms are divided between full and short forms.
Direct/Nominative | Indirect/Genitive | Oblique | |
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1st person singular | ako | ko | kakɨn (kɨn) |
2nd person singular | kawa (ka) | mo | kanimo (nimo) |
3rd person singular | kanya | niya (ya) | kanya |
1st person plural inclusive | kita | ta | katɨn |
1st person plural exclusive | kami | kamɨn | kamɨn |
2nd person plural | kamo | mi | kanimi |
3rd person plural | tila | nila | kanila |
The demonstratives are as follows.
Direct/Nominative | Indirect/Genitive | Oblique | |
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near speaker | lito | kalito | kaito, kito |
near adressee | layan | kalayan | |
far away | liti | kaliti | atan, doon |