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Kalamian languages

Kalamian languages

Subgroup of the Austronesian language family

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.

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These are among the few languages of the Philippines which continue to be written in indigenous scripts, though mostly for poetry.[citation needed]

Classification

Kalamian [blue] languages of Palawan

The Kalamian languages are a primary branch of the Philippine language family.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    Blust, Robert (1991). "The Greater Central Philippines hypothesis". Oceanic Linguistics. 30 (2): 73–129. doi:10.2307/3623084. JSTOR 3623084.

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