Aborlan Tagbanwa is spoken on Palawan Island in the Philippines. It is not mutually intelligible with the other languages of the Tagbanwa people.
| Aborlan Tagbanwa | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Philippines |
| Region | Palawan |
| Ethnicity | Tagbanwa people |
Native speakers | 17,000 (2005)[1] 500 monolingual (2002)[1] |
| Tagbanwa script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tbw |
| Glottolog | tagb1258 |
Phonology
editConsonants
edit| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
| Fricative | s | h | ||||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Rhotic | ɾ~r | |||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||
Vowels
edit| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ɨ | u |
| Open | a |
Grammar
editPronouns
editThe following table contains the pronouns found in the Aborlan Tagbanwa language. Note: some forms are divided between full and short forms.
| Direct/Nominative | Indirect/Genitive | Oblique | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st person singular | aku | ku | aken |
| 2nd person singular | ikaw (ka) | mu | imu |
| 3rd person singular | kanya | ya | kanya |
| 1st person plural inclusive | kita (ta) | tami (ta) | aten |
| 1st person plural exclusive | kami | namen | amen |
| 2nd person plural | kamu | mu | imyu |
| 3rd person plural | kanya | nira | kanira |
References
edit- ^ a b Aborlan Tagbanwa at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ a b Reid, Lawrence A. (1971). Philippine Minor Languages: Word Lists and Phonologies. University of Hawai'i Press. p. 41.
- ^ Quakenbush, J. Stephen; Ruch, Edward (2006). Pronoun Ordering and Marking in Kalamianic (PDF). Paper presented at the Tenth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, 17–20 January 2006, Puerto Princesa City, Palawan, Philippine. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
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