Cotabato Manobo language

Cotabato Manobo
Spoken in	Sultan Kudarat, Mindanao, the Philippines
Native speakers	30,000  (2007)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Mindanao Manobo South Cotabato Manobo
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mta
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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 /ɡ/, 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		ɡ
Fricative		ɸ	s				h
Nasal		m	n		ŋ
Lateral			l
Semivowel				j		w

See also

• Lumad

References

• Harland Kerr (1988). "Cotabato Manobo grammar". Studies in Philippine Linguistics 7 (1): 1–123. http://www.sil.org/asia/philippines/plb_download.html. 

External links

• Ethnologue report for language code:mta