Tagabawa language

Tagabawa
Tagabawa
Native to	Philippines
Region	Mindanao
Native speakers	(43,000 cited 1998)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Greater Central Philippine Manobo Southern Tagabawa; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bgs
Glottolog	taga1272
	Area where Tagabawa is spoken according to Ethnologue

Tagabawa is a Manobo language of Davao City and Mount Apo in Mindanao, the Philippines. Tagabawa is spoken in Cotabato and Davao del Sur provinces, and on the slopes of Mount Apo west of Davao City,^[2] The language is spoken by the Bagobo Tagabawa people.

Phonology

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n		ŋ
Plosive	voiceless	p	t		k	ʔ
Plosive	voiced	b	d		ɡ	ʔ
Fricative			s			h
Rhotic			ɾ
Lateral			l
Approximant		w		j

Sounds /p, t, k, ʔ/ are heard as unreleased [p̚, t̚, k̚, ʔ̚] when in word-final position.

^ Tagabawa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Ethnologue
^ Dubois, Carl D. & Lauretta J. (2006). Phonemic Statement of Tagabawa. Summer Institute of Linguistics: Philippines.

Tagabawa-language texts at Project Gutenberg
Diccionario Bagobo-Español (1892) by Mateo Gisbert – from the University of Michigan Digital Collections

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