Philippines parts of Sabah,Malaysia Northern Sulawesi, Indonesia
Linguistic classification
Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Philippine?
Greater Central Philippine
Proto-language
Proto-Greater Central Philippine
Subdivisions
Central Philippine
South Mangyan
Palawanic
Subanen
Danao
Manobo
Gorontalo–Mongondow
Glottolog
grea1284
The Greater Central Philippine languages are a proposed subgroup of the Austronesian language family, defined by the change of Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *R to *g. They are spoken in the central and southern parts of the Philippines, eastern and western parts of Sabah,
Malaysia and in northern Sulawesi, Indonesia.[1] This subgroup was first proposed by Robert Blust (1991) based on lexical and phonological evidence,[1] and is accepted by most specialists in the field.[2][3][4][5]
Most of the major languages of the Philippines belong to the Greater Central Philippine subgroup: Tagalog, the Visayan languages Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Waray; Central Bikol, the Danao languages Maranao and Magindanaon.[6] On the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia, Gorontalo is the third-largest language by number of speakers.[7]
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Blust, Robert (1991). "The Greater Central Philippines hypothesis". Oceanic Linguistics. 30 (2): 73–129. doi:10.2307/3623084. JSTOR 3623084.
^Lobel, Jason William. (2013). Philippine and North Bornean languages: issues in description, subgrouping, and reconstruction. Ph.D. dissertation. Manoa: University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
^Reid, Lawrence A. (2018). "Modeling the linguistic situation in the Philippines." In Let's Talk about Trees, ed. by Ritsuko Kikusawa and Lawrence A. Reid. Osaka: Senri Ethnological Studies, Minpaku. doi:10.15021/00009006
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Smith, Alexander D. (2017). "The Western Malayo-Polynesian Problem". Oceanic Linguistics. 56 (2): 435–490. doi:10.1353/ol.2017.0021.
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Himes, Robert S. (2002). "The Relationship of Umiray Dumaget to Other Philippine Languages". Oceanic Linguistics. 41 (2): 275–294. doi:10.1353/ol.2002.0005. JSTOR 3623311.
^"Ethnologue report for Philippines". www.ethnologue.com.
^"Ethnologue report for Indonesia (Sulawesi)". www.ethnologue.com.
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