Cotabato Manobo language
| Cotabato Manobo | |
|---|---|
| Region | Sultan Kudarat, Mindanao, the Philippines |
Native speakers | 30,000 (2007)[1] |
| Dialects | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
mta |
| Glottolog |
cota1241[2] |
Cotabato Manobo is a Manobo language spoken in Mindanao, the Philippines.
Phonology
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 /a/, 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.
Consonants
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Rounded velar |
Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | Voiceless | t | k | ʔ | |||
| Voiced | b | d | a | ||||
| Fricative | ɸ | s | h | ||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ||||
| Lateral | l | ||||||
| Semivowel | j | w | |||||
See also
References
- ↑ Cotabato Manobo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Cotabato Manobo". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- Harland Kerr (1988). "Cotabato Manobo grammar". Studies in Philippine Linguistics 7 (1): 1–123.
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