Mansakan languages

Mansakan
Geographic distribution:	Davao Region, Mindanao
Linguistic classification:	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Central Philippine Mansakan
Glottolog:	mans1261[1]

The Mansakan languages are a group of languages spoken in the Philippines. Davawenyo is the principal native language of the Davao region, however, there is a high degree of bilingualism in Cebuano among their speakers.

Classification

Overview

The Mansakan languages are:

• Davawenyo
• Mandayan

• Mansaka
• Mandaya

• Kamayo
• Kalagan (a dialect cluster)
• Mamanwa

Gallman (1974)

The Mansakan subgrouping below is from Gallman (1974).^[2]

Individual languages are marked by italics, and primary branches by bold italics.

• Mansakan
  • North Mansakan
    • Kamayo North and Kamayo South
  • Davaw
    • Davawenyo (Davaweño)
  • Eastern Mansakan
    • Isamal
    • Caraga (Karaga)
    • Kabasagan, Boso, Mansaka, Mandayan
  • Western Mansakan
    • Kalagan and Tagakaolo
• Mamanwa

References

1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mansakan". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
2. Gallman, Andrew Franklin. A Reconstruction of Proto-Mansakan. M.A. dissertation. Arlington, Texas: Dept. of Liunguistics, University of Texas at Arlington, 1974.