Western Bukidnon Manobo

Western Bukidnon Manobo is a Manobo language of Mindanao in the Philippines.

Western Bukidnon Manobo
Native to	Philippines
Region	mostly in southwestern portions of Northern Mindanao region, Mindanao
Native speakers	15,000 (2008)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Greater Central Philippine Manobo Central West Western Bukidnon Manobo
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mbb
Glottolog	west2555
ELP	Western Bukidnon Manobo

Distribution and dialects

Western Bukidnon Manobo is spoken in the following locations:^[2]

• Southern Bukidnon Province: Dangcagan, Don Carlos, Kitaotao, and especially Maramag municipalities
• Cotabato Province: Banisilan municipality

Its dialects are Ilentungen, Kiriyenteken, and Pulangiyen.

References

1. Western Bukidnon Manobo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Ethnologue

Further reading

• Elkins, Richard Ewell (1967). Major Grammatical Patterns of Western Bukidnon Manobo (Ph.D. thesis). University of Hawaii. hdl:10125/11706.
• Elkins, Richard E. (1970). Major Grammatical Patterns of Western Bukidnon Manobo. Summer Institute of Linguistics. – published version of Elkins's 1967 dissertation

External links

• Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: Manobo, Western Bukidnon