Cotabato Manobo language

Cotabato Manobo
Cotabato Manobo
Region	Sultan Kudarat, Mindanao, the Philippines
Native speakers	30,000 (2007)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Greater Central Philippine Manobo South Cotabato Manobo; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Tasaday; Blit;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mta
Glottolog	cota1241
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Cotabato Manobo (Dulangan Manobo) is a Manobo language spoken in Mindanao, the Philippines. Dialects include Tasaday and Blit.

Distribution

Cotabato Manobo is spoken in the Kalamansig, Palimbang, and Ninoy Aquino municipalities of Sultan Kudarat Province and the T'Boli municipality of South Cotabato Province.^[2]

/i u/ are realized as [ɪ ʊ] in closed syllables.
/ɛ/ is realized as [e] when it is preceded by /k/ and in an open syllable.
/a/ is realized as [ɜ] when it is followed by /h/ or /ʔ/.
/ɔ/ is realized as [ɒ] when it is followed by /h/, /ʔ/, or /ɡ/, or when word-initial and followed by /k/. For some speakers it may also be realized as [ɒ] before or after /k/ when not word-initial.

Cotabato Manobo consonants
		Labial	Coronal	Dorsal	Glottal
Nasal		m	n	ŋ
Plosive	voiced	b	d	ɡ
Plosive	voiceless		t	k	ʔ
Fricative		ɸ	s		h
Approximant		w	l	j