The Palawanic languages are a subgroup in the Greater Central Philippine-family spoken on the island of

Palawan Palawan (), officially the Province of Palawan ( cyo, Probinsya i'ang Palawan; tl, Lalawigan ng Palawan), is an archipelagic province of the Philippines that is located in the region of Mimaropa. It is the largest province in the country in ...

and nearby islets.

Languages

The Palawanic languages are: * Palawano (a

dialect cluster A dialect continuum or dialect chain is a series of language varieties spoken across some geographical area such that neighboring varieties are mutually intelligible, but the differences accumulate over distance so that widely separated varie ...

) * Aborlan Tagbanwa * Central Tagbanwa (not to be confused with Kalamian Tagbanwa) *

Batak Batak is a collective term used to identify a number of closely related Austronesian ethnic groups predominantly found in North Sumatra, Indonesia, who speak Batak languages. The term is used to include the Karo, Pakpak, Simalungun, Toba, ...

(not to be confused with the

Batak languages __FORCETOC__ The Batak languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages spoken by the Batak people in the Indonesian province of North Sumatra and surrounding areas. Internal classification The Batak languages can be divided into two ma ...

) * Tau't Batu Molbog may also be in this group, closest to Palawano.

Reconstruction

Proto-Palawanic has been reconstructed by Thiessen (1980).

Languages

Reconstruction

References

Further reading