Kagayanen language


The Kagayanen language is spoken in the province of Palawan in the Philippines. It belongs to the Manobo subgroup of the Austronesian language family, and is the only member of this subgroup that is not spoken on Mindanao or nearby islands.

Distribution

Kagayanen is spoken in the following areas.
occurs only in loan words, proper names, or in words that have in the cognates of neighboring languages.
Outside of loanwords, becomes between vowels.
Comparative and historical evidence suggests that and were in complementary distribution before a split occurred with pressure from contact with English, Spanish, and Tagalog.
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ranges between and, except in unstressed syllables where it lowers to or. Similarly, lowers to in unstressed syllables, before consonant clusters, and word-finally. It is otherwise.