Cotabato Manobo language

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

Cotabato Manobo
Region	Sultan Kudarat, Mindanao, the Philippines
Native speakers	30,000 (2007)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Greater Central Philippine Manobo South Cotabato Manobo
Dialects	Tasaday Blit
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mta
Glottolog	cota1241

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.

Phonology

Vowels

Cotabato Manobo vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid	ɛ	ə	ɔ
Open-mid		a
Open

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

Consonants

Cotabato Manobo consonants

		Labial	Coronal	Dorsal	Glottal
Nasal		m	n	ŋ
Plosive	voiced	b	d	ɡ
	voiceless		t	k	ʔ
Fricative		ɸ	s		h
Approximant		w	l	j

See also

• Lumad

Further reading

• Kerr, Harland (1988). "Cotabato Manobo Grammar" (PDF). Studies in Philippine Linguistics. 7 (1): 1–123.