Palawano language
There are three Palawano languages: the "Quezon Palawano" which is also known as the Central Palawano; Brooke's Point Palawano and it's dialect the "Bugsuk Palawano" or "South Palawano" and Southwest Palawano. The three Palawano languages share the island with several other Palawanic languages which are not part of the Palawano cluster, though they share a fair amount of vocabulary. The following overview is based on Revel-MacDonald (1979). Verb conjugations are similar to other Filipino dialects with prefixes and suffixes indicating tense, object or actor focus, as well as intention (i.e. commands). These prefixes and suffixes can be used to create various parts of speech from the same root word. For example, "biyag", meaning life, can be manipulated to mean "to live" ("megbiyag"), full of food ("mebiyag"), to raise to life ("ipebiyag"), living as an adjective ("biyagen"), or living as a present tense verb form ("pebibiyag"). Palawano creates a diminutive prefix by copying the first CV of the base together with the final base consonant: kusiŋ (cat): kuŋ-kusiŋ (kitten), bajuʔ (clothing): bäʔ-bajuʔ (child's clothing), libun (woman): lin-libun (girl), kunit (yellow): kut-kunit (yellow flycatcher (bird)), siak (tears): sik-siak (crocodile tears/false tears). The following set of pronouns are the pronouns found in the Southwest Palawano language. Note: the direct/nominative case is divided between full and short forms. There are many linguistic variations among Palawan family groups with words changing from one valley to the next (i.e. "tabon" for mountain verses "bukid"). Tagalog is frequently used to supply words lacking in the local dialect for modern objects and actions which can cause confusion, especially among the younger generation, between Tagalog and Palawan. The more familiar a family or village is with the Tagalog lowland culture, the more common the language overlap. Some Brooke's Point Palawan words are:







Phrases: The following compares the Palawano languages with other Greater Central Philippine languages. The spelling is controversial with multiple translators using separate spelling methods, some using Tagalog based spelling while others use other systems. Brooke's Point Palawano uses 23 letters: a, b, [k], d, e, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, ng, o, p, r, s, t, u, w, y, and ' (glottal stop). Borrowed: c, f, q, x, z. The 'e' stands for schwa and "dy" makes a 'j' sound. In the 20th century, the Tagbanwa script was adopted from the Tagbanwa people by the Palawan people further south in the island. They call this alphabet 'Ibalnan' and the vowel mark an "ulit". <br>
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Classification
The Palawano languages are spoken in the province of Palawan in the Philippines, by the Palawano people.