Greater Central Philippine languages

Greater Central Philippine
Geographic
distribution
Philippines
parts of Sabah,Malaysia
Northern Sulawesi, Indonesia
Linguistic classificationAustronesian
Proto-languageProto-Greater Central Philippine
Subdivisions
Glottologgrea1284

The Greater Central Philippine languages are a proposed subgroup of the Austronesian language family, defined by the change of Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *R to *g. They are spoken in the central and southern parts of the Philippines, eastern and western parts of Sabah, Malaysia and in northern Sulawesi, Indonesia.[1] This subgroup was first proposed by Robert Blust (1991) based on lexical and phonological evidence,[1] and is accepted by most specialists in the field.[2][3][4][5]

Most of the major languages of the Philippines belong to the Greater Central Philippine subgroup: Tagalog, the Visayan languages Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Waray; Central Bikol, the Danao languages Maranao and Magindanaon.[6] On the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia, Gorontalo is the third-largest language by number of speakers.[7]

  1. ^ a b Blust, Robert (1991). "The Greater Central Philippines hypothesis". Oceanic Linguistics. 30 (2): 73–129. doi:10.2307/3623084. JSTOR 3623084.
  2. ^ Lobel, Jason William. (2013). Philippine and North Bornean languages: issues in description, subgrouping, and reconstruction. Ph.D. dissertation. Manoa: University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
  3. ^ Reid, Lawrence A. (2018). "Modeling the linguistic situation in the Philippines." In Let's Talk about Trees, ed. by Ritsuko Kikusawa and Lawrence A. Reid. Osaka: Senri Ethnological Studies, Minpaku. doi:10.15021/00009006
  4. ^ Smith, Alexander D. (2017). "The Western Malayo-Polynesian Problem". Oceanic Linguistics. 56 (2): 435–490. doi:10.1353/ol.2017.0021.
  5. ^ Himes, Robert S. (2002). "The Relationship of Umiray Dumaget to Other Philippine Languages". Oceanic Linguistics. 41 (2): 275–294. doi:10.1353/ol.2002.0005. JSTOR 3623311.
  6. ^ "Ethnologue report for Philippines". www.ethnologue.com.
  7. ^ "Ethnologue report for Indonesia (Sulawesi)". www.ethnologue.com.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia · View on Wikipedia

Developed by Nelliwinne