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Mindanao languages

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Mindanao
Southern Philippine
(obsolete)
Geographic
distribution
Mindanao
Linguistic classificationAustronesian
Subdivisions
GlottologNone

TheMindanaoorSouthern Philippine languagesare an obsolete proposal for a subgroup of theAustronesian languagescomprising theDanao languages,theManobo languagesandSubanon,all of which are spoken inMindanao,Philippines.

Blust (1991) includes the three groups as separate branches in a largerGreater Central Philippinesubgroup (together with theCentral Philippine,Southern Mindoro,Palawanand Gorontalo–Mongondowbranches), and there is no evidence that they are more closely related to each other than to the other branches of the Greater Central Philippine subgroup.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^Blust, Robert (1991). "The Greater Central Philippines hypothesis".Oceanic Linguistics.30(2): 73–129.doi:10.2307/3623084.JSTOR3623084.