Cotabato Manobo language
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Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines
Cotabato Manobo | |
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Region | Sultan Kudarat, Mindanao, the Philippines |
Native speakers | 30,000 (2007)[1] |
Austronesian
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | mta |
Glottolog | cota1241 |
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Cotabato Manobo (Dulangan Manobo) is a Manobo language spoken in Mindanao, the Philippines. Dialects include Tasaday and Blit.
Distribution
[edit]Cotabato Manobo is spoken in the Kalamansig, Palimbang, and Ninoy Aquino municipalities of Sultan Kudarat Province and the T'Boli municipality of South Cotabato Province.[2]
Phonology
[edit]Vowels
[edit]Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i | u | |
Mid | ɛ | ə | ɔ |
Open-mid | a | ||
Open |
- /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.
Consonants
[edit]Labial | Coronal | Dorsal | Glottal | ||
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Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ||
Plosive | voiced | b | d | ɡ | |
voiceless | t | k | ʔ | ||
Fricative | ɸ | s | h | ||
Approximant | w | l | j |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Cotabato Manobo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ "Manobo, Cotabato". Ethnologue.
Further reading
[edit]- Kerr, Harland (1988). "Cotabato Manobo Grammar" (PDF). Studies in Philippine Linguistics. 7 (1): 1–123.
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