Mamanwa language

The Mamanwa language is a Central Philippine language spoken by the Mamanwa people. It is spoken in the provinces of Agusan del Norte and Surigao del Norte in the Lake Mainit area of Mindanao, Philippines. It had about 5,000 speakers in 1990.

Mamanwa
Native toPhilippines
RegionAgusan del Norte and Surigao provinces, Mindanao
Native speakers
(5,200 cited 1990 census)[1]
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3mmn
Glottologmama1275

Mamanwa is a grammatically conservative language, retaining a three-way deictic distinction in its articles which elsewhere is only preserved in some of the Batanic languages.[2][3]

Before the arrival of Mamanwa speakers in central Samar Island, there had been an earlier group of Negritos on the island (Lobel 2013:92). According to Lobel (2013), the Samar Agta may have switched to Waray-Waray or Northern Samarenyo, or possibly even Mamanwa.

Also, Francisco Combes, a Spanish friar, had observed the presence of Negritos in the Zamboanga Peninsula “in the Misamis strip” in 1645, although no linguistic data had ever been collected (Lobel 2013:93).

General references

References
  1. Mamanwa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Ross, Malcolm (2005). "The Batanic languages in relation to the early history of the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of Austronesian." Journal of Austronesian Studies 1/2:1-24.
  3. Miller, J., and H. Miller. 1976. Mamanwa Grammar. Language Data: Asian-Pacific Series No. 8. Huntington Beach, CA: Summer Institute of Linguistics.


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