Cotabato Manobo language

Cotabato Manobo
Region	Sultan Kudarat, Mindanao, the Philippines
Native speakers	30,000 (2007)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Mindanao Manobo South Cotabato Manobo
Dialects	Tasaday
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mta
Glottolog	cota1241[2]

Cotabato Manobo is a Manobo language spoken in Mindanao, the Philippines.

Phonology

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 /a/, 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

		Bilabial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Rounded velar	Glottal
Stop	Voiceless		t		k		ʔ
	Voiced	b	d		a
Fricative		ɸ	s				h
Nasal		m	n		ŋ
Lateral			l
Semivowel				j		w

See also

• Lumad

References

1. Cotabato Manobo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Cotabato Manobo". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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