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(Text) CC BY-SA