Mindanao languages explained

Mindanao
Also Known As:Southern Philippine
Acceptance:obsolete
Region:Mindanao
Familycolor:Austronesian
Fam2:Malayo-Polynesian
Fam3:Philippine
Fam4:Greater Central Philippine
Child1:Manobo
Child2:Danao
Child3:Subanon
Glotto:none

The Mindanao or Southern Philippine languages are an obsolete proposal for a subgroup of the Austronesian languages comprising the Danao languages, the Manobo languages and Subanon, all of which are spoken in Mindanao, Philippines.

Blust (1991) includes the three groups as separate branches in a larger Greater Central Philippine subgroup (together with the Central Philippine, Southern Mindoro, Palawan andGorontalo–Mongondow branches), and there is no evidence that they are more closely related to each other than to the other branches of the Greater Central Philippine subgroup.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Blust, Robert . The Greater Central Philippines hypothesis . Oceanic Linguistics . 1991 . 30 . 2 . 73–129 . 10.2307/3623084. 3623084 .