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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]
Subgroup of the Austronesian language family / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Central Philippine languages are the most geographically widespread demonstrated group of languages in the Philippines, being spoken in southern Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao, and Sulu.
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Sep 17, 2021 · Maguindanao (Magindanawn) Maguindanao is a member of the Greater Central Philippine branch of the Philippine language family. It is spoken by 1.1 million people, mainly in Maguindanao province in the south of Mindanao island in the Philippines, and also in the provinces of North Cotabato, South Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, Sarangani, Zamboanga del Sur, Zamboanga Sibugay and Metro Manila.
Central Philippine languages (40 languages, including Tagalog, Bikol languages and Visayan languages) Palawan languages (3 languages) Subanen languages (6 languages; sometimes considered one dialect cluster)
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- Proto-Philippine (disputed)
Except for English, Spanish, Chavacano and varieties of Chinese ( Hokkien, Cantonese and Mandarin ), all of the languages belong to the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family. The following are the four Philippine languages with more than five million native speakers: [44] Tagalog. Cebuano.
The Greater Central Philippine languages are a proposed subgroup of the Austronesian language family. They are spoken in the central and southern parts of the Philippines, and in northern Sulawesi. This subgroup was first proposed by Robert Blust (1991) based on lexical and phonological evidence, and is accepted by most specialists in the field.
