Palawan Batak language
Not to be confused with Batak languages.
Batak | |
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Palawan Batak | |
Native to | Philippines |
Region | Palawan |
Ethnicity | 2,040 (1990 census)[1] |
Native speakers | 200 (2000)[1] |
Austronesian
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Tagbanwa alphabet | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
bya |
Glottolog |
bata1301 [2] |
Batak is a Negrito language spoken on Palawan Island in the Philippines. It is sometimes disambiguated from the Batak languages as Palawan Batak.
Batak is spoken in the communities of Babuyan, Maoyon, Tanabag, Langogan, Tagnipa, Caramay, and Buayan (Lobel 2013:87). Surrounding languages including Southern Tagbanwa, Central Tagbanwa, Kuyonon, and Agutaynen.
References
- 1 2 Batak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Batak". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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