Cotabato Manobo language explained

Cotabato Manobo
Region:	Sultan Kudarat, Mindanao, the Philippines
Speakers:	30,000
Date:	2007
Ref:	e18
Familycolor:	Austronesian
Fam2:	Malayo-Polynesian
Fam3:	Philippine
Fam4:	Greater Central Philippine
Fam5:	Manobo
Fam6:	South
Iso3:	mta
Glotto:	cota1241
Glottorefname:	Cotabato Manobo
Dia1:	Tasaday
Dia2:	Blit
Notice:	IPA

Cotabato Manobo (Dulangan Manobo) is a Manobo language spoken in Mindanao, the Philippines. Dialects include Tasaday and Blit.

Distribution

Cotabato Manobo is spoken in the Kalamansig, Palimbang, and Ninoy Aquino municipalities of Sultan Kudarat Province and the T'Boli municipality of South Cotabato Province.^[1]

pronounced as //i u// are realized as pronounced as /[ɪ ʊ]/ in closed syllables.
pronounced as //ɛ// is realized as pronounced as /[e]/ when it is preceded by pronounced as //k// and in an open syllable.
pronounced as //a// is realized as pronounced as /[ɜ]/ when it is followed by pronounced as //h// or pronounced as //ʔ//.
pronounced as //ɔ// is realized as pronounced as /[ɒ]/ when it is followed by pronounced as //h//, pronounced as //ʔ//, or pronounced as //ɡ//, or when word-initial and followed by pronounced as //k//. For some speakers it may also be realized as pronounced as /[ɒ]/ before or after pronounced as //k// when not word-initial.