Palawanic languages

Not to be confused with Palauan (the language of Palau), with Paluan (a language of Borneo), or 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
Proto-language	Proto-Palawanic
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
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.