Kalamian languages

{{short description|Subgroup of the Austronesian language family}}

{{Infobox language family

|name=Kalamian

|region=islands between Mindoro and Palawan

|familycolor=Austronesian

|fam2=Malayo-Polynesian

|fam3=Philippine

|glotto=kala1389

|glottorefname=Kalamian

}}

The Kalamian languages are a small cluster of languages spoken in the Philippines: Calamian Tagbanwa and Agutaynen. Other languages called Tagbanwa, the Aborlan Tagbanwa language and Central Tagbanwa language are members of the Palawanic languages.

These are among the few languages of the Philippines which continue to be written in indigenous scripts, though mostly for poetry.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}

Classification

File:Palawanic and Kalamian languages.png

The Kalamian languages are a primary branch of the Philippine language family, notable for reflecting Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *q as k and *R as l, while reducing original *k to zero.

{{cite journal | author=Blust, Robert

| title=The Greater Central Philippines hypothesis

| journal=Oceanic Linguistics

| year=1991

| volume=30

| issue=2

| pages=73–129

| ref=apa

| doi=10.2307/3623084

| jstor=3623084 }}

References

Himes, Ronald S. 2007. "[https://www.sil.org/resources/archives/25644 The Kalamian microgroup of Philippine languages]". Studies in Philippine languages and cultures 15:54-72.

Kalamian languages

Classification

References

Further reading

See also