| Calamian Tagbanwa | |
| Nativename: | ᝦᝲᝨᝪᝯ, Tinagbanwa[1] |
| States: | Philippines |
| Region: | Calamian Islands |
| Ethnicity: | Tagbanwa people |
| Speakers: | 10,000 |
| Date: | 2007 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | Austronesian |
| Fam2: | Malayo-Polynesian |
| Fam3: | Philippine |
| Fam4: | Kalamian |
| Script: | Tagbanwa alphabet |
| Iso3: | tbk |
| Glotto: | cala1258 |
| Glottorefname: | Calamian Tagbanwa |
Calamian Tagbanwa is spoken in the Calamian Islands just north of Palawan Island, Philippines. It is not mutually intelligible with the other languages of the Tagbanwa people. Ethnologue reports that it is spoken in Busuanga, Coron, Culion, and Linapacan municipalities (Calamian and Linapacan island groups).
Himes (2006)[2] considers there to be two distinct dialects.
| Nasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
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| Plosive | voiceless | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| voiced | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| Fricative | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| Lateral | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| Rhotic | pronounced as /link/~pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| Approximant | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| Close | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |
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| Open | pronounced as /link/ |
The following set of pronouns are the pronouns found in the Calamian Tagbanwa language. Note: the direct/nominative case is divided between full and short forms.
| 1st person singular | yuu/yaku (aw) | u | yɨɨn/yakɨn |
| 2nd person singular | yawa (a) | mu | nuyu |
| 3rd person singular | tanya | na | anya |
| 1st person plural inclusive | ita | ta | yatɨn |
| 1st person plural exclusive | yami (ami) | yamɨn | yamɨn |
| 2nd person plural | yamu (amu) | mi | numyu |
| 3rd person plural | tanira | nira | nira |