Central Tagbanwa is spoken on Palawan Island in the Philippines. It is not mutually intelligible with the other languages of the Tagbanwa people.
Phonology
Consonants
- preceding a high front vowel is usually realized as an affricate sound .
- tend to shift to uvular sounds when adjacent to .
Vowels
- is usually a high central vowel sound, although it is occasionally moved further back to , or lowered to .
- An sound is often heard when two back vowels are adjacent to one another, or as an allophone of .
Grammar
Pronouns
The following set of pronouns are the personal pronouns found in the Central Tagbanwa language. Note: some forms are divided between full and short forms.
The demonstratives are as follows.
Notes
References