Agusan language


Agusan is a Manobo language of northeastern Mindanao in the Philippines. The Omayamnon, Dibabawon, and Rajah Kabunsuwan dialects are divergent.

Distribution

Agusan Manobo is spoken in the following areas.
Dibabawon Manobo is spoken in the following areas.
Rajah Kabunsuwan Manobo is spoken in the following areas.

Phonology

Consonants

Below is a chart showing the consonants of Agusan. The stops have unreleased variants when occurring before another consonant, silence, and in syllable final position. The glottal stop /ʔ/ occurs in all consonant positions. Of the continuants, all occur in syllable-initial position and all except /h/ in word-final position. The consonants /d/ and /j/ are used interchangeably.

Vowels

There are only five vowels in the Agusan language, /i/, /u/, /e/, /æ/, and /a/. Vowels may appear alone, after a consonant, or between consonants in a syllable. All vowels, with the exception of /æ/, may occur "in a sequence of identical vowels separated by a glottal stop". The vowel /e/ never occurs next to the consonant /r/.