The Kalamian languages are a small cluster of languages spoken in the Philippines:

Calamian Tagbanwa Calamian Tagbanwa is spoken in the Calamian Islands just north of Palawan Island, Philippines. It is not mutually intelligible with the other languages of the Tagbanwa people. ''Ethnologue'' reports that it is spoken in Busuanga, Coron, Culion ...

and Agutaynen. Other languages called Tagbanwa, the

Aborlan Tagbanwa language Aborlan, officially the Municipality of Aborlan (), is a municipality in the province of , Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 38,736 people. Aborlan is the province's only town with an agricultural college, now ca ...

and

Central Tagbanwa language Central Tagbanwa is spoken on Palawan Island in the Philippines. It is not mutually intelligible In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a relationship between different but related language varieties in which speakers of the different var ...

are members of the

Palawanic languages The Palawanic languages are a subgroup in the Greater Central Philippine-family spoken on the island of Palawan and nearby islets. Languages The Palawanic languages are: * Palawano (a language cluster) ** Brooke's point Palawano ** Central Pa ...

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

Classification

The Kalamian languages are a primary branch of the Philippine language family, notable for reflecting

Proto-Malayo-Polynesian Proto-Malayo-Polynesian (PMP) is the reconstructed ancestor of the Malayo-Polynesian languages, which is by far the largest branch (by current speakers) of the Austronesian language family. Proto-Malayo-Polynesian is ancestral to all Austronesia ...

''*q'' as ''k'' and ''*R'' as ''l'', while reducing original ''*k'' to zero.

References

*Himes, Ronald S. 2007.
The Kalamian microgroup of Philippine languages
. ''Studies in Philippine languages and cultures'' 15:54-72.

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