Cotabato Manobo language

Cotabato Manobo
Spoken in	Sultan Kudarat, Mindanao, the Philippines
Native speakers	30,000 (2007)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Mindanao Manobo South Cotabato Manobo; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mta
	This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters.
	This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters.

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Cotabato Manobo is a Manobo language spoken in Mindanao, the Philippines.

[edit] Phonology

/i u/ are realized as [ɪ ʊ] in closed syllables.
/ɛ/ is realized as [e] when it is preceded by /k/ and in an open syllable.
/a/ is realized as [ɜ] when it is followed by /h/ or /ʔ/.
/ɔ/ is realized as [ɒ] when it is followed by /h/, /ʔ/, or /ɡ/, or when word-initial and followed by /k/. For some speakers it may also be realized as [ɒ] before or after /k/ when not word-initial.