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Calamian languages

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Glottolog:
  
kala1389

Geographic distribution:
  
islands between Mindoro and Palawan

Linguistic classification:
  
Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Calamian

The Calamian languages (also spelled Kalamian) are a small cluster of languages spoken in the Philippines:

Calamian Tagbanwa and Agutaynen.

These are among the few languages of the Philippines which continue to be written in indigenous scripts, though mostly for poetry.

Classification

Adelaar and Himmelmann (2005) make Kalamian a primary branch of the Philippine language family.

References

Calamian languages Wikipedia