Cotabato Manobo language
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| Cotabato Manobo | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | Sultan Kudarat, Mindanao, the Philippines | |
| Total speakers: | ~30,000 | |
| Language family: | Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Southern Philippine Manobo South Cotabato Manobo |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | mno | |
| ISO/FDIS 639-3: | mta | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Cotabato Manobo is a Manobo language spoken in Mindanao, the Philippines.
Contents |
[edit] Phonology
[edit] Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 /g/, 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.
[edit] Consonants
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Rounded velar |
Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | Voiceless | t | k | ʔ | |||
| Voiced | b | d | g | ||||
| Fricative | ɸ | s | h | ||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ||||
| Lateral | l | ||||||
| Semivowel | j | w | |||||
[edit] References
- Harland Kerr (1988). "Cotabato Manobo grammar". Studies in Philippine Linguistics 7 (1): 1–123.
[edit] External links
| Lumad | Mindanao hilltribes |  |
|---|---|
| Kamayo | Manobo | Tasaday | T'boli |
