The Mindanao or Southern Philippine languages are an obsolete proposal for a subgroup of the
Austronesian languages comprising the
Danao languages
The Danao languages are a group of Austronesian languages spoken in the Philippines. They are Maguindanaon and Maranao
The Maranao people (Maranao: mәranaw Filipino: ''Maranaw''), also spelled Meranao, Maranaw, and Mëranaw, is the t ...
, the
Manobo languages
The Manobo languages are a group of languages spoken in the Philippines. Their speakers are primarily located around Northern Mindanao, Central Mindanao (presently called ) and Caraga regions where they are natively spoken. Some outlying group ...
and
Subanon, all of which are spoken in
Mindanao
Mindanao ( ) ( Jawi: مينداناو) is the second-largest island in the Philippines, after Luzon, and seventh-most populous island in the world. Located in the southern region of the archipelago, the island is part of an island group of ...
,
Philippines
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* bik, Republika kan Filipinas
* ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas
* cbk, República de Filipinas
* hil, Republ ...
.
Blust (1991) includes the three groups as separate branches in a larger
Greater Central Philippine subgroup (together with the
Central Philippine,
Southern Mindoro,
Palawan
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and
Gorontalo–Mongondow branches), and there is no evidence that they are more closely related to each other than to the other branches of the Greater Central Philippine subgroup.
References
Greater Central Philippine languages
Mindanao
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