Palawanic languages

Not to be confused with Palawano, the language spoken in Palawan by the Palaw'an tribal people.

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

Palawanic
Geographic distribution	Palawan, Philippines
Linguistic classification	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Greater Central Philippine Palawanic
Language codes
Glottolog	pala1354

Languages

Palawanic [red] languages of Palawan^[1]

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][4] Ethnologue classifies Bonggi as Palawanic.^[5]

Reconstruction

Proto-Palawanic has been reconstructed by Thiessen (1980).^[3]

References

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

Further reading

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