The Kalamian languages are a small cluster of languages spoken in the Philippines: Calamian Tagbanwa and Agutaynen. Other languages called Tagbanwa, the Aborlan Tagbanwa language and Central Tagbanwa language are members of the Palawanic languages.
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Geographic distribution | islands between Mindoro and Palawan |
Linguistic classification | Austronesian
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Glottolog | kala1389 |
These are among the few languages of the Philippines which continue to be written in indigenous scripts, though mostly for poetry.[citation needed]
The Kalamian languages are a primary branch of the Philippine language family.[1]
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Northern Luzon |
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Reconstructed | Proto-Philippine † | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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