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The Greater Central Philippine languages are a proposed subgroup of the Austronesian language family, defined by the change of Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *R to *g. They are spoken in the central and southern parts of the Philippines, eastern and western parts of Sabah, Malaysia and in northern Sulawesi, Indonesia. [1]
Languages of the Philippines. There are some 130 to 195 languages spoken in the Philippines, depending on the method of classification. [3] [4] [5] [6] Almost all are Malayo-Polynesian languages native to the archipelago.
- Overview
- Zorc
- Gallman
- Greater Central Philippine
The languages are generally subdivided thus (languages in italicsrefer to a single language): 1. Kasiguranin–Tagalog(at least three dialects found in southern Luzon) 2. Bikol (eight languages in the Bicol Peninsula) 3. Bisayan (eighteen languages spoken in the whole Visayas, as well as southeastern Luzon, northeastern Mindanao and Sulu) 4. Mansakan...
The expanded tree of the Central Philippine languages below is given in David Zorc's 1977 Ph.D. dissertation. The Visayan subgrouping is Zorc's own work, while the Bikol subgrouping is from McFarland (1974)and the Mansakan subgrouping from Gallman (1974). Individual languages are marked by italics, and primary branches by bold italics.
Andrew Gallman (1997) rejects Zorc's classification of the Mansakan languages and Mamanwa as primary branches of the Central Philippine languages coordinate to the Bisayan languages. Instead, he groups Mansakan, Mamanwa and the Southern Bisayan languages together into an "East Mindanao" subgroup, which links up with the remaining Bisayan branches i...
Blust (1991) notes that the central and southern Philippines has low linguistic diversity. Based on exclusively shared lexical innovations, he posits a Greater Central Philippine subgroup that puts together the Central Philippine branch with South Mangyan, Palawan, Danao, Manobo, Subanon and Gorontalo–Mongondow languages, the latter found in northe...
This chapter provides a typological overview of the languages of the Central and Southern Philippines (henceforth, CSP languages). Despite not forming a discrete phylogenetic group, the CSP languages share certain morphosyntactic retentions from Proto Malayo-Polynesian which make them a useful unit for typological generalizations. Like other ...
1.0 Introduction. This chapter provides a typological overview of the languages of the Central and Southern Philippines (henceforth, CSP languages).
Charibeth Cheng. 2020. The Philippines is home to more than 150 languages that is considered to be low-resourced even on its major languages. This results into a lack of pursuit in developing a translation system for the underrepresented languages.
Accord-ing to (McFarland, 2004), the Philippine languages may be grouped into language families, which in-cludes the northern group (Ilokano, Pangasinan, and Kapampangan), and a central group (Tagalog, Bicolano, Hiligaynon, and Cebuano).
