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
![Palawanic and Kalamian languages](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Palawanic_and_Kalamian_languages.png)
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
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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 ...
)
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Tau't Batu
Molbog may also be in this group, closest to Palawano.
Reconstruction
Proto-Palawanic has been reconstructed by Thiessen (1980).
References
Further reading
*Zorc, R. David. (1972a).
Palawano Notes'.
*Zorc, R. David. (1972b).
Tagbanwa (Northern) Notes'.
Greater Central Philippine languages
Languages of Palawan
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