Tagabawa Language
Tagabawa is a Manobo language of Davao City and Mount Apo in Mindanao, the Philippines.
Tagabawa is spoken in Cotabato and Davao del Sur provinces, and on the slopes of Mount Apo west of Davao City, The language is spoken by the Bagobo Tagabawa people.
| Tagabawa | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Philippines |
| Region | Mindanao |
Native speakers | (43,000 cited 1998) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bgs |
| Glottolog | taga1272 |
 Area where Tagabawa is spoken according to Ethnologue | |
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||
| Fricative | s | h | ||||
| Rhotic | ɾ | |||||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||
- Sounds /p, t, k, ʔ/ are heard as unreleased [p̚, t̚, k̚, ʔ̚] when in word-final position.
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ||
| Mid | e | ə | o |
| Open | a | ɔ |
- /e/ is heard as [ɛ] 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
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