Tagabawa language
{{short description|Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines}}
{{Distinguish|Tagbanwa (disambiguation){{!}}Tagbanwa language}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Tagabawa
|nativename=
|states=Philippines
|region=Mindanao
|speakers= 43,000
|date=1998
|ref=e18
|familycolor=Austronesian
|fam2=Malayo-Polynesian
|fam3=Philippine
|fam4=Greater Central Philippine
|fam5=Manobo
|fam6=Southern
|iso3=bgs
|glotto=taga1272
|glottorefname=Tagabawa
|map=Tagabawa_language_map.png
|mapcaption=Area where Tagabawa is spoken according to Ethnologue
}}
Tagabawa is a Manobo language of Davao City and Mount Apo in Mindanao, the Philippines. Tagabawa is spoken in Cotabato and Davao del Sur provinces, and on the slopes of Mount Apo west of Davao City,Ethnologue The language is spoken by the Bagobo Tagabawa people.
Phonology
= Consonants =
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
! colspan="2" | |
| colspan="2" |Nasal
|{{IPA link|m}} |{{IPA link|n}} | |{{IPA link|ŋ}} | |
|---|
| rowspan="2" |Plosive
!voiceless |{{IPA link|p}} |{{IPA link|t}} | |{{IPA link|k}} | rowspan="2" |{{IPA link|ʔ}} |
| voiced
|{{IPA link|b}} |{{IPA link|d}} | |{{IPA link|ɡ}} |
| colspan="2" |Fricative
| |{{IPA link|s}} | | |{{IPA link|h}} |
| colspan="2" |Rhotic
| |{{IPA link|ɾ}} | | | |
| colspan="2" |Lateral
| |{{IPA link|l}} | | | |
| colspan="2" |Approximant
|{{IPA link|w}} | |{{IPA link|j}} | | |
- Sounds /p, t, k, ʔ/ are heard as unreleased [p̚, t̚, k̚, ʔ̚] when in word-final position.
= Vowels =
References
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External links
- [https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/languages/bgs Tagabawa-language texts at Project Gutenberg]
- [http://name.umdl.umich.edu/AEG8685.0001.001 Diccionario Bagobo-Español (1892)] by Mateo Gisbert – from the University of Michigan Digital Collections
{{Philippine languages}}
{{Languages of the Philippines}}
Category:Languages of Davao del Sur
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