The South Mindanao or Bilic languages are a group of related languages spoken by the
Bagobo,
Blaan,
Tboli, and
Teduray peoples of the southern coast of Mindanao Island in the Philippines. They are not part of the
Mindanao
Mindanao ( ) is the List of islands of the Philippines, second-largest island in the Philippines, after Luzon, and List of islands by population, seventh-most populous island in the world. Located in the southern region of the archipelago, the ...
language family that covers much of the island. The languages are:
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Blaan
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Klata
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Tboli
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Teduray
Though it is typically classified as one of the South Mindanao languages,
Klata (Giangan) is alternatively considered by to be a primary branch of the Southern
Philippine languages
The Philippine languages or Philippinic are a proposed group by R. David Paul Zorc (1986) and Robert Blust (1991; 2005; 2019) that include all the languages of the Philippines and northern Sulawesi, Indonesia—except Sama–Bajaw (language ...
, with Bilic being classified as a sister branch.
Reconstructions
reconstructs Proto-South-Mindanaon using
Tboli, Koronadal
Blaan, and Sarangani Blaan data.
Teduray and
Giangan were not used in Savage's (1986) reconstruction.
Numerals
Notes
References
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Philippine languages
Mindanao
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