Magahat language
{{Short description|Central Philippine language}}
{{distinguish|MAGA hat}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Magahat
|altname=Southern Binukidnon
|states=Philippines
|region=Negros Oriental
|ethnicity=Negrense
|speakers={{sigfig|7570|2}}
|date=2000
|ref=e18
|familycolor=Austronesian
|fam2=Malayo-Polynesian
|fam3=Philippine
|fam4=Central Philippine
|fam5=Bisayan
|iso3=mtw
|glotto=maga1264
|glottorefname=Southern Binukidnon
}}
Magahat, also called Southern Binukidnon or Buglas Bukidnon, is a Central Philippine language of the mountains of Negros in the Philippines that has been strongly influenced by Cebuano and Hiligaynon. It is similar to Karolanos; Lobel (2013) suggests that it is a Bisayan language.
Demographics
Oracion (1974){{Cite journal |last=Oracion |first=Timoteo S. |date=1974 |title=The Magahats of Southern Negros, Philippines: Problems and Prospects |journal=Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society |volume=2 |issue=1/2 |pages=38–46 |JSTOR=29791118}} reported a Magahat population of just under 400 people in Basay, Negros Oriental. Dantes (2015)Dantes, Edmundo. 2015. [https://www.slideshare.net/BUGLAS/anthropology-development-in-negros-oriental-43730388 Anthropology Development in Negros Oriental]. reported a Magahat population of 2,478 individuals.
According to the Ethnologue, Magahat is spoken in the Mount Arniyo area near Bayawan, upper Tayaban, Tanjay, Santa Catalina, and Siaton municipalities in southern Negros Oriental Province, located just west of Dumaguete.
Sound changes
Lobel (2013: 39, 249, 273)Lobel, Jason William. 2013. [http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/graduate/Dissertations/JasonLobelFinal.pdf Philippine and North Bornean languages: issues in description, subgrouping, and reconstruction]. Ph.D. dissertation. Manoa: University of Hawai'i at Manoa. reports that Southern Binukidnon is a Bisayan language that has some uncommon phonological features, including the preservation of Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *-h in coda positions.
References
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Category:Central Philippine languages
Category:Languages of Negros Oriental
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