| Cotabato Manobo | |
|---|---|
| Region | Sultan Kudarat, Mindanao, the Philippines |
Native speakers | 30,000 (2007)[1] |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mta |
| Glottolog | cota1241 |
Cotabato Manobo (Dulangan Manobo) is a Manobo language spoken in Mindanao, the Philippines. Dialects include Tasaday and Blit.
Distribution
Cotabato Manobo is spoken in the Kalamansig, Palimbang, and Ninoy Aquino municipalities of Sultan Kudarat Province and the T'Boli municipality of South Cotabato Province.[2]
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 /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.
Consonants
| Labial | Coronal | Dorsal | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ||
| Plosive | voiced | b | d | ɡ | |
| voiceless | t | k | ʔ | ||
| Fricative | ɸ | s | h | ||
| Approximant | w | l | j | ||
See also
References
- ↑ Cotabato Manobo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ↑ "Manobo, Cotabato". Ethnologue.
Further reading
- Kerr, Harland (1988). "Cotabato Manobo Grammar" (PDF). Studies in Philippine Linguistics. 7 (1): 1–123.
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