Tagabawa is a Manobo language of

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and Mount Apo in

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, the

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. Tagabawa is spoken in

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and

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provinces, and on the slopes of Mount Apo west of

, The language is spoken by the Bagobo Tagabawa people.

Phonology

Consonants

* Sounds /p, t, k, ʔ/ are heard as unreleased ̚, t̚, k̚, ʔ̚when in word-final position.

Vowels

* /e/ is heard as �in close syllables.

References

External links

Tagabawa-language texts at Project Gutenberg''Diccionario Bagobo-Español'' (1892)
by Mateo Gisbert – from the University of Michigan Digital Collections Manobo languages Languages of Davao del Sur {{GCPhilippine-lang-stub