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:
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