Mamanwa language
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Austronesian language
| Mamanwa | |
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| Native to | Philippines |
| Region | Agusan del Norte and Surigao provinces, Mindanao |
Native speakers | (5,200 cited 1990 census)[1] |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mmn |
| Glottolog | mama1275 |
The Mamanwa language is a
Mamanwa people. It is spoken in the provinces of Agusan del Norte and Surigao del Norte in the Lake Mainit area of Mindanao, Philippines
. It had about 5,000 speakers in 1990.
Mamanwa is a grammatically conservative language, retaining a three-way deictic distinction in its articles which elsewhere is only preserved in some of the Batanic languages.[2][3]
Before the arrival of Mamanwa speakers in central
or Northern Samarenyo, or possibly even Mamanwa.In addition to this, Francisco Combes, a Spanish friar, had observed the presence of Negritos in the Zamboanga Peninsula "in the Misamis strip" in 1645, although no linguistic data had ever been collected.[5]
References
- ^ Mamanwa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Ross, Malcolm (2005). "The Batanic Languages in Relation to the Early History of the Malayo-Polynesian Subgroup of Austronesian" (PDF). Journal of Austronesian Studies. 1 (2): 1–24. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-03-04.
- ^ Miller & Miller 1976.
- ^ Lobel 2013, p. 92.
- ^ Lobel 2013, p. 93.
General references
- Lobel, Jason William (2013). Philippine and North Bornean Languages: Issues in Description, Subgrouping, and Reconstruction (PDF) (Ph.D. dissertation). University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
- Miller, Jeanne; Miller, Helen (1976). Mamanwa Grammar. Huntington Beach, California: Summer Institute of Linguistics. ISBN 0-88312-208-1.
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