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Central Tagbanwa Reviews (1521 words) |
 | This is a sketch grammar of Tagbanwa, an Austronesian language spoken in the northwest of the island of Palawan in the western Philippines. |
| Tagbanwa phonology is interesting in having received a far greater number of Spanish loans (italicized above) than Tagalog: the result has been a separate "phonology within the phonology" for this part of the lexis. |
| Furthermore, mother-tongue Tagbanwa speakers have become very proficient in languages of wider communicative reach and power such as English, Tagalog, and Cuyunon, and they have been teaching these to their children for decades-leading to substantial language and culture shifts. |
| Tagbanwa alphabet and language (176 words) |
| The Tagbanwa alphabet is one of a number of closely related scripts used in the Philippines until the 17th Century AD. |
| It is thought to have descended from the Kawi script of Java, Bali and Sumatra, which in turn descended from the Pallava script, one of the southern Indian scripts derived from Brahmi. |
| Tagbanwa is a syllabic alphabet in which each consonant has an inherent vowel /a/. |
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