Central Tagbanwa is spoken on
Palawan Island
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in the
Philippines
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. It is not
mutually intelligible
In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a relationship between different but related language varieties in which speakers of the different varieties can readily understand each other without prior familiarity or special effort. Mutual intellig ...
with the other languages of the
Tagbanwa people.
Phonology
Consonants
* preceding a high front vowel is usually realized as an affricate sound .
* tend to shift to uvular sounds when adjacent to .
Vowels
* is usually a high central vowel sound, although it is occasionally moved further back to , or lowered to .
* An sound is often heard when two back vowels are adjacent to one another, or as an allophone of .
Grammar
Pronouns
The following set of pronouns are the personal pronouns found in the Central Tagbanwa language. Note: some forms are divided between full and short forms.
The demonstratives are as follows.
Notes
References
*
Palawanic languages
Languages of Palawan
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