Palawanic languages explained

Palawanic
Region:	Palawan, Philippines
Familycolor:	Austronesian
Fam2:	Malayo-Polynesian
Fam3:	Philippine
Fam4:	Greater Central Philippine
Glotto:	pala1354
Glottorefname:	Palawanic

The Palawanic languages are a subgroup in the Greater Central Philippine-family spoken on the island of Palawan and nearby islets.

Languages

The Palawanic languages are:

• Palawano (a language cluster)
  • Brooke's point Palawano
  • Central Palawano
  • Southwest Palawano
    • Tau't Batu^{[1] [2]}
• Aborlan Tagbanwa
• Central Tagbanwa (not to be confused with Kalamian Tagbanwa)
• Batak (not to be confused with the Batak languages)

Molbog may also be in this group, closest to Palawano.^[3] Ethnologue classifies Bonggi as Palawanic.^[4]

Reconstruction

Proto-Palawanic has been reconstructed by Thiessen (1980).^[5]

Further reading

• Zorc, R. David. (1972a). Palawano Notes.
• Zorc, R. David. (1972b). Tagbanwa (Northern) Notes.

Notes and References

1. Lobel . Jason William . Philippine and North Bornean languages: Issues in Description, Subgrouping, and Reconstruction . 2013 . Ph.D. . University of Hawai'i at Mānoa .
2. Book: Reid, Lawrence A. . Let’s Talk about Trees: Genetic Relationships of Languages and Their Phylogenic Representation . 2018 . Kikusawa . Ritsuko . Senri Ethnological Studies, 98 . 91–105 . Modeling the Linguistic Situation in the Philippines . 10.15021/00009006 . Reid . Lawrence A..
3. Smith . Alexander . The Languages of Borneo: A Comprehensive Classification . 2017 . Ph.D. . University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa .
4. Book: Ethnologue: Languages of the World . 2023 . SIL International . Eberhard . David M. . Twenty-sixth . Dallas, Texas . Simons . Gary F. . Fennig . Charles D..
5. Thiessen . Henry Arnold . Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Palawan' . 1980 . MA . University of Texas at Arlington.