Mansakan languages
The Mansakan languages are a group of Austronesian languages spoken in the Philippines. Dabawenyo is the principal native language of the Davao region; however, there is a high degree of bilingualism in Cebuano among their speakers. Most speakers have shifted to Cebuano today.
Mansakan | |
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Geographic distribution | Davao Region, Mindanao |
Linguistic classification | Austronesian
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Glottolog | mans1261[1] |
Classification
Overview
The Mansakan languages are:
- Dabawenyo
- Mandayan
Gallman (1974)
The Mansakan subgrouping below is from Gallman (1974).[2]
Individual languages are marked by italics, and primary branches by bold italics.
gollark: This is why mutability is isomorphic to a single bee per second.
gollark: ↓ cons cells
gollark: This is a good and not bad idea.
gollark: Nope. That screenshot was faked, via bee.
gollark: Fascinating.
References
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Mansakan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Gallman, Andrew Franklin. A Reconstruction of Proto-Mansakan. M.A. dissertation. Arlington, Texas: Dept. of Linguistics, University of Texas at Arlington, 1974.
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