Southern Mindoro languages

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South Mangyan
South Mindoro
Geographic
distribution
Mindoro
Linguistic classificationAustronesian
Glottologsout2915

The Southern Mindoro (South Mangyan) languages are one of two small clusters of

Mindoro Island in the Philippines.[1] They make up a branch of the Greater Central Philippine subgroup.[2]

The languages are

Hanuno'o
.

These are among the few languages of the Philippines which continue to be written in indigenous scripts, though mostly for poetry.

See also

References

  1. ^ Zorc, R. (1974). Internal and External Relationships of the Mangyan Languages. Oceanic Linguistics, 13(1/2), 561-600.
  2. ^ Blust, Robert (1991). "The Greater Central Philippines hypothesis". Oceanic Linguistics. 30 (2): 73–129.
    JSTOR 3623084
    .

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