Mindanao languages

Mindanao
Mindanao
Southern Philippine
Geographic; distribution	Mindanao
Linguistic classification	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Greater Central Philippine ? Mindanao; ; ; ;
Subdivisions	Manobo; Danao; Subanon; ?South Mindanao;
Language codes
Glottolog	None

The Mindanao or Southern Philippine languages are one of the few established large groups of languages in the Philippines, with two dozen closely related languages of Mindanao.

The group has traditionally been called Southern Philippine, and believed to exclude the South Mindanao languages. However, Blust (1991) includes it in an expanded (Greater) Central Philippine clade under the name Mindanao.^[1]

Languages

The languages are divided into the following subgroups:

References

^ Blust, Robert (1991). "The Greater Central Philippines hypothesis". Oceanic Linguistics. 30 (2): 73–129. doi:10.2307/3623084. JSTOR 3623084.

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[1] Blust, Robert (1991). "The Greater Central Philippines hypothesis". Oceanic Linguistics. 30 (2): 73–129. doi:10.2307/3623084. JSTOR 3623084.

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