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Cotabato Manobo language

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Native speakers
  
30,000 (2007)

ISO 639-3
  
mta

Dialects
  
Tasaday

Glottolog
  
cota1241

Region
  
Sultan Kudarat, Mindanao, the Philippines

Language family
  
AustronesianMalayo-PolynesianPhilippineMindanaoManoboSouthCotabato Manobo

Cotabato Manobo (Dulangan Manobo) is a Manobo language spoken in Mindanao, the Philippines. Dialects include Tasaday and Blit.

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Distribution

Cotabato Manobo is spoken in (Ethnologue):

  • Sultan Kudarat Province: Kalamansig, Palimbang, and Ninoy Aquino municipalities
  • South Cotabato Province: T’Boli municipality

    • Vowels

  • /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.

    • References

    Cotabato Manobo language Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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