Central Tagbanwa language
Central Tagbanwa is spoken on Palawan Island in the Philippines. It is not mutually intelligible with the other languages of the Tagbanwa people.
Phonology
Consonants
- /t/ preceding a high front vowel /i/ is usually realized as an affricate sound .
- /k, ŋ/ tend to shift to uvular sounds when adjacent to /a/.
Vowels
- /ɨ/ is usually a high central vowel sound, although it is occasionally moved further back to , or lowered to .
- An sound is often heard when two back vowels are adjacent to one another, or as an allophone of /u/.
Grammar
Pronouns
The following set of pronouns are the personal pronouns found in the Central Tagbanwa language language. Note: some forms are divided between full and short forms.| Direct/Nominative | Indirect/Genitive | Oblique | |
| 1st person singular | ako | ko | kakɨn |
| 2nd person singular | kawa | mo | kanimo |
| 3rd person singular | kanya | niya | kanya |
| 1st person plural inclusive | kita | ta | katɨn |
| 1st person plural exclusive | kami | kamɨn | kamɨn |
| 2nd person plural | kamo | mi | kanimi |
| 3rd person plural | tila | nila | kanila |
The demostratives are:
| Direct/Nominative | Indirect/Genitive | Oblique | |
| near speaker | lito | kalito | kaito, kito |
| near adressee | layan | kalayan | |
| far away | liti | kaliti | atan, doon |