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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 Aborlan Tagbanwa is spoken on Palawan Island in the Philippines. It is not mutually intelligible with the other languages of the Tagbanwa people The Tagbanwa people ( Tagbanwa: ) are one of the oldest ethnic groups in the Philippines, and ca ...
and
Central Tagbanwa language Central Tagbanwa is spoken on Palawan Island in the Philippines. It is not mutually intelligible with the other languages of the Tagbanwa people The Tagbanwa people ( Tagbanwa: ) are one of the oldest ethnic groups in the Philippines, and ca ...
are members of the
Palawanic languages The Palawanic languages are a subgroup in the Greater Central Philippine languages, Greater Central Philippine-family spoken on the island of Palawan and nearby islets. Languages The Palawanic languages are: *Palawano language, Palawano (a dia ...
. 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.


References

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


Further reading

*Zorc, R. David. 1972.
Agutaynon notes
'. *Zorc, R. David. 1972.
Kalamian notes
'.


See also

*
Tagbanwa script Tagbanwa is one of the scripts indigenous to the Philippines, used by the Tagbanwa and the Palawan people as their ethnic writing system. The Tagbanwa languages (Aborlan, Calamian and Central), which are Austronesian languages with about 25,000 ...
Philippine languages Languages of Palawan {{philippine-lang-stub