South Mangyan | |
Also Known As: | South Mindoro |
Region: | Mindoro |
Familycolor: | Austronesian |
Fam2: | Malayo-Polynesian |
Fam3: | Philippine |
Fam4: | Greater Central Philippine |
Glotto: | sout2915 |
Glottorefname: | South Mangyan |
The Southern Mindoro (South Mangyan) languages are one of two small clusters of Austronesian languages spoken by the Mangyan people of Mindoro Island in the Philippines.[1] They make up a branch of the Greater Central Philippine subgroup.[2]
The languages are Buhid, Tawbuid, and Hanuno'o.
These are among the few languages of the Philippines which continue to be written in indigenous scripts, though mostly for poetry.