| Kalamian | |
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| Geographic distribution: |
islands between Mindoro and Palawan |
| Linguistic classification: | Austronesian
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| Subdivisions: |
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The Kalamian languages are a small cluster of languages spoken in the Philippines, grouping together Kalamian Tagbanwa and Agutaynen.[1] These are among the few languages of the Philippines which continue to be written in indigenous scripts, though mostly for poetry.
Adelaar and Himmelmann (2005) make Kalamian a primary branch of the Philippine language family. However, a 2008 analysis of the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database[2] supports Kalamian as the family most closely related to the Palawan languages, as part of the Palawanic family.