Borneo-Philippines languages

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Classification

• Bashiic languages (4 languages between Luzon and Formosa
  Taiwan
  
  Taiwan is an island in East Asia. "Taiwan" is also commonly used to refer to the country governed by the Republic of China and to the ROC itself, which governs the island of Taiwan, Orchid Island and Green Island, Taiwan in the Pacific Ocean off the Taiwan coast, the Penghu islands in the Taiwan Strait, and Kinmen and the Matsu Islands...
  , including Ivatan
  Ivatan language
  
  The Ivatan language, also known as Ibatan or Chirin nu Ibatan , is an Austronesian languages language spoken exclusively in the Batanes Islands....
   of the Philippines and Yami
  Tao language
  
  The Tao language , also known as Yami , is a Batanic languages spoken by the Tao people of Taiwan who live on Orchid Island, 46 kilometers southeast of the main island of Taiwan....
   of Taiwan
  Taiwan
  
  Taiwan is an island in East Asia. "Taiwan" is also commonly used to refer to the country governed by the Republic of China and to the ROC itself, which governs the island of Taiwan, Orchid Island and Green Island, Taiwan in the Pacific Ocean off the Taiwan coast, the Penghu islands in the Taiwan Strait, and Kinmen and the Matsu Islands...
  )
• Northern Luzon languages
• Ilokano
  Ilokano language
  
  Ilokano is the third most-spoken language of the Republic of the Philippines.An Austronesian languages, it is related to such languages as Indonesian language, Malay language, Fijian language, Maori language , Hawaiian language, Malagasy language , Samoan language, Tahitian language, Chamorro language , Tetum , and Paiwan language ....
   (encircles the Cordillera)
• Northern Cordilleran languages (15 languages of the cordillera and east coast of Luzon, including Ibanag
  Ibanag language
  
  The Ibanag language is spoken by up to 500,000 speakers in the Philippines, in the northeastern provinces of Isabela province and Cagayan, especially in Tuguegarao City, Solana, Cagayan, Cabagan, Isabela, and Ilagan, Isabela and with overseas immigrants in countries located in the Middle East, United Kingdom and the U.S.A.....
   and Agta
  Agta
  
  Agta can refer to:*any of of the Philippine island of Luzon, along to east coast from the northern tip to the latitude of Manila.*the Aeta people of the Philippines....
  )
• South-Central Cordilleran languages (25 languages in the mountains of northern Luzon, including Pangasinan
  Pangasinan language
  
  The Pangasinan language is one of the twelve major languages in the Philippines.The language is spoken by more than one and a half million Pangasinan people in the province of Pangasinan alone....
   and the Igorot
  Igorot
  
  Igorot name for the people of the Cordillera Administrative Region region, in the Philippines island of Luzon. The Igorot form two subgroups: the larger group lives in the south, central and western areas, and is very adept at rice-Terrace farming; the smaller group lives in the east and north....
   languages)
• Arta (within the Pangasinan area)
• Central Luzon languages (5 languages near Mount Pinatubo
  Mount Pinatubo
  
  Mount Pinatubo is an active stratovolcano located on the island of Luzon, at the intersection of the borders of the Philippine provinces of Zambales, Tarlac, and Pampanga....
  , including Kapampangan
  Kapampangan language
  
  Kapampangan is one of the major languages of the Philippines. It is the major language spoken by the people in Pampanga. The language is also called Pampango, Capampan?gan, Pampangue?o, and Amanung Sisuan....
  )
• Sambalic languages
  Sambalic languages
  
  The Sambalic languages are part of the Central Luzon languages language family. The largest Sambalic languages are Tina language, Bolinao language, and Botolan language, with approximately 70,000 , 50,000 , and 32,867 speakers, respectively....
   (including Tina
  Tina language
  
  Tina is a Sambalic language spoken by approximately 70,000 Sambal people, primarily in the Zambales municipalities of Santa Cruz, Zambales, Candelaria, Zambales, Masinloc, Palauig, and Iba, Zambales in the Philippines; speakers can also be found in Quezon, Palawan....
  , Bolinao
  Bolinao language
  
  The Bolinao language is spoken primarily in the Pangasinan municipality of Anda, Pangasinan and the town of Bolinao, Pangasinan. It has approximately 50,000 speakers , making it the second most widely spoken Sambalic language....
  , and Botolan
  Botolan language
  
  Botolan is a Sambalic language spoken by 32,867 Sambal people, primarily in the Zambales municipalities of Botolan, Zambales and Cabangan, Zambales in the Philippines....
  )
• Northern Mindoro languages (or North Mangyan
  Mangyan
  
  Mangyan is the generic name for the eight indigenous peoples groups found in Mindoro, each with its own tribal name, language, and customs. The total population may be around 100,000, but no official statistics are available because of the difficulties of counting remote and reclusive tribal groups, many of which have no contact with the o...
  ; 3 languages)

• South Mangyan languages (3 languages of Mindoro
  Mindoro
  
  Mindoro is the seventh-largest island in the Philippines. It is located southwest of Luzon, and northeast of Palawan. In past times, it has been called Ma-i or Mait by ancient China traders and, by Spain, as Mina de Oro from where the island got its current name....
  , including Buhid
  Buhid language
  
  The Buhid language is a language spoken by Mangyans in the provinces of the Philippines of Mindoro in the Philippines. It is divided into eastern and western dialects....
   and Hanunoo
  Hanunoo language
  
  The Hanuno'o language is a language spoken by Mangyans in the provinces of the Philippines of Mindoro in the Philippines.It is written in the Hanunoo script....
  )
• Kalamian languages (2 languages between Mindoro and Palawan
  Palawan
  
  Palawan is an island province of the Philippines located in the MIMAROPA Regions of the Philippines. Its capital is Puerto Princesa City, and it is the largest province in the country in terms of total area of jurisdiction....
  , Tagbanwa
  Tagbanwa
  
  Tagbanwa, also known as Apurahuano, is one of the indigenous writing systems of the Philippines. The Tagbanwa language, an Austronesian language, with about 8, 000 speakers in the central and northern regions of Palawan, is dying out as the younger generations of Tagbanua are learning Cuyonon and Tagalog language....
   and Agutaynen
  Agutaynen language
  
  The Agutaynen language is spoken on Agutaya, Palawan in the provinces of the Philippines of Palawan in the Philippines.External links*...
  )
• Palawano language
  Palawano language
  
  The Palawano languages are spoken on the island of Palawan in the province of Palawan in the Philippines.There are actually three related, but not mutually intelligible, languages which called themselves "Tribes of Palawan#Palawanon" ...
  s (5 languages of the Palawanos
  Ethnic Groups of Palawan
  
  Palawan, the largest province in the Philippines, is home to several indigenous ethnolinguistic groups namely, the Tribes of Palawan#Tagbanua, Tribes of Palawan#Palawano, Tribes of Palawan#Tau't Bato, and the Batak tribes....
  )
• Central Philippine languages
  Central Philippine languages
  
  The Central Philippine languages are the most geographically widespread group of languages in the Philippines, being spoken in southern Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao, and Sulu....
  
• Tagalog
  Tagalog language
  
  Tagalog is one of the major languages used in the Philippines. It is a basis for the Filipino language, which is the principal language of the national television and radio, though broadsheet newspapers are almost completely in English....
   (Filipino
  Filipino language
  
  The Filipino language is the national language and an official language of the Philippines as designated in the 1987 Philippine Constitution. It is an Austronesian language that is the de facto standard language of Tagalog language....
  )
• Bikol languages
  Bikol languages
  
  Bikol languages a group of Central Philippine languages spoken particularly on the Bicol Peninsula on the island of Luzon and parts of Catanduanes and Burias Island, Masbate Province....
   (8 languages of southern Luzon called Bikol
  Bikol language
  
  Central Bicolano , is one of the individual languages of the Bikol language , which in is part of the group of Bikol languages. It belongs to Coastal Bikol....
  )
• Visayan languages
  Visayan languages
  
  The Visayan languages of the Languages of the Philippines, along with Tagalog language and Bikol language, are part of the Central Philippine languages language family....
   (20 languages in and around the Sibuyan
  Sibuyan Sea
  
  The Sibuyan Sea is a small sea in the Philippines that separates the Visayas from the northern Philippine island of Luzon. It is bounded by the island of Panay Island to the south, Mindoro to the west, and to the north the Bicol Peninsula of Luzon Island....
   and Visayan Sea
  Visayan Sea
  
  The Visayan Sea is a small sea within the Philippines archipelago, surrounded on three sides by the islands of the Visayas. The Eastern Visayas and Western Visayas lie to the east and west, while the Central Visayas lie to the south....
  s, including northern Mindanao; major languages are Cebuano
  Cebuano language
  
  Cebuano is an Austronesian language language spoken in the Philippines by about 20 million people. It is the largest member of the Visayan languages, and is also referred to as "Visayan"....
  , Hiligaynon
  Hiligaynon language
  
  Hiligaynon is an Austronesian language spoken in Western Visayas in the Philippines. Hiligaynon is concentrated in the provinces of Iloilo and Negros Occidental....
  , Waray-Waray
  Waray-Waray language
  
  W?ray-W?ray or War?y is a language spoken in the provinces of Samar Province, Northern Samar, Eastern Samar, Leyte province , and Biliran in the Philippines....
  , Kinaray-a
  Kinaray-a language
  
  Kinaray-a is an Austronesian languages language spoken mainly in Antique Province in the Philippines. It is also spoken in Iloilo province and certain villages in Mindanao that trace their roots to Antique Province or Kinaray-a speaking areas of Iloilo Province....
  , Tausug
  Tausug language
  
  Tausug is a Visayan languages spoken in Sulu province in the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia by the Tausug people....
  )
• Mamanwa (northern tip of Mindanao
  Mindanao
  
  Mindanao is the second largest and easternmost island in the Philippines. It is also one of the three island groups in the country, along with Luzon and Visayas....
  )
• Mansakan languages (8 languages of the Davao Region
  Davao Region
  
  Davao Region, designated as Region XI, is one of the Regions of the Philippines of the Philippines, located on the southeastern portion of Mindanao....
  , including Davawenyo)

• Southern Philippine languages
• Manobo languages (15 languages of central Mindanao, including Tasaday
  Tasaday
  
  The Tasaday were purportedly a group of uncontacted peoples people living deep in the rainforest on the Philippines island of Mindanao. When the media reported they had been living in isolation since the Stone Age, the group gained international fame in the 1970s....
  )
• Danao languages (3 languages of east Mindanao, including Magindanao
  Maguindanao language
  
  Maguindanaon is an Austronesian language spoken by majority of the population of Maguindanao Province in the Philippines. It is also spoken by sizable minorities in different parts of Mindanao such as the cities of Zamboanga, Davao, and General Santos, and the provinces of North Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, South Cotabato, Sarangani, Zamboanga d...
   and Maranao
  Maranao language
  
  Maranao is an Austronesian languages language spoken in the provinces of Lanao del Norte and Lanao del Sur in the Philippines....
  )
• Subanun languages (5 languages of the western peninsula of Mindanao)
• South Mindanao languages (5 languages of the southern coast, including Tboli
  Tboli
  
  The T'boli are one of the indigenous peoples of Southern Mindanao. From the body of ethnographic and linguistic literature on Mindanao they are variously known as Tboli, T'boli, Tb?li, Tiboli, Tibole, Tagabili, Tagabeli, and Tagabulu....
  )
• Sama-Bajaw languages (10 languages of the Sulu Archipelago
  Sulu Archipelago
  
  Sulu Archipelago is an island chain in the southwest Philippines. It is considered to be part of Moroland by the local independence movement. With the centers in Maimbung and Jolo, Sulu, the whole of this archipelago, Palawan and coastal regions of the Zamboanga Peninsula and North Borneo used to be part of the thalassocracy Sultanate of Sul...
   and Biliran
  Biliran
  
  Biliran is one of the smallest Provinces of the Philippiness in the Philippines and it is located in the Eastern Visayas Regions of the Philippines....
  , several called Sama or Bajaw)

• Barito languages (12 languages of south Borneo and Madagascar, including Ngaju Dayak
  Ngaju language
  
  Ngaju is an Austronesian languages language spoken along the Kapuas, Kahayan River, Katingan, and Mentaya Rivers in south Borneo, Indonesia. There are three dialects--Pulopetak, Ba'amang, and Mantangai....
   and Malagasy
  Malagasy language
  
  This article is about the Malagasy language. For the Malagasy ethnic group, see Malagasy people. For the residents or citizens of Madagascar, see Demographics of Madagascar...
  )
• Kayan languages (18 languages of central Borneo, including Kayan)
• Penan (Punan-Nibong)
  Penan
  
  The Penan are a nomadic aboriginal people living in Sarawak and Brunei. They are one of the last such peoples remaining. The Penan are noted for their practice of 'molong' which means never taking more than necessary....
  
• Land Dayak (Bidayuh)
  Bidayuh
  
  Bidayuh is the collective name for several indigenous groups found in southern Sarawak, on the island of Borneo, that are broadly similar in language and culture ....
   (12 languages of west Borneo, such as Lara’
  Lara language
  
  Rara is a language spoken by some 12,000 people in Borneo. Speakers are found in the Indonesian area of the island on the Upper Lundu River and Sambas River rivers, around Bengkayang east of Gunung Pendering, and to the north, in Pejampi and two other villages ....
  )
• Melanau-Kajang languages
• Kajang (Rejang) (3)
• Melanau (Lower Rejang)
  Melanau language
  
  Melanau is an Austronesian languages language spoken in the coastal area of the Rejang delta on northwest Borneo, Sarawak, Malaysia and Brunei. There are several dialects--Mukah-Oya, Balingian, Bruit, Dalat, Igan, Sarikei, Segahan, Prehan, Segalang, and Siteng....
   (3)
• Berawan-Lower Baram (Baram-Tinjar) (5)
• Bintulu
• Dayic languages (languages of Sabah-Sarawak-Kalimantan border area)
• Kelabitic (Apo Duat) (5 languages, including Kelabit
  Kelabit
  
  The Kelabit, who have close ties to the Lun Bawang, are an indigenous people of the Sarawak highlands with a minority in the neighbouring state of Brunei....
  )
• Murutic (Murut-Tidong)
  Murutic languages
  
  The Murutic languages are a family of 15 closely related Austronesian languages and 21 dialects, spoken in the northern inland regions of Borneo by the Murut people....
   (12 languages, including Tagol Murut
  Tagol Murut language
  
  The Tagol Murut language is spoken by the Tagol Murut people subgroup of the Murut people, and serves as the lingua franca of the whole group. It belongs to the Bornean languages subdivision of the Austronesian languages language family....
  )
• Kenyah (11 languages of central Borneo called Kenyah
• Rejang-Sajau languages (5, languages including Punan Bah-Biau
  Punan
  
  Punan Bah or Punan is an ethnic group found in Sarawak, Malaysia. They are distinct, unrelated to the Penan and also the other so called Punan found in Kalimantan the Indonesian part of Borneo....
  )
• Sabahan languages (languages of Sabah
  Sabah
  
  Sabah is a Malaysian States of Malaysia located on the northern portion of the island of Borneo . It is the second largest state in Malaysia after Sarawak, which it borders on its south-west....
  )
• Dusunic (Dusun-Bisaya) (15 languages, including Kadazan-Dusun
  Kadazan-Dusun
  
  Kadazan-Dusun is the term assigned to the unification of the classification of two Indigenous peoples tribes in Sabah, Malaysia—the ethnic groups Kadazan and Dusun....
  )
• Ida’an
  Ida'an language
  
  The Ida'an language is a Malayo-Polynesian languages language spoken by the Ida'an people of Sabah, Malaysia.Begak is threatened with language death, as younger speakers are switching to Malay language....
  
• Paitanic (5 languages, including Tambanuo
  Tambanuo
  
  The Tambanuo are an indigenous peoples ethnic group residing in Sabah, eastern Malaysia on the island of Borneo. They reside in the Labuk-Sugut, Kota Marudu, and Pitas districts of Kudat Division of Sabah....
  )

• Sangiric languages (4 languages of very north, including Bantik
  Bantik language
  
  Bantik is an endangered language Austronesian languages spoken in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. It is the traditional language of the Bantik people, who are now switching to Manado Malay as their language for everyday communication, though Bantik is still used as a marker of ethnic identity....
  )
• Minahasan languages (5 languages called Minahasa
  Minahasa
  
  The Minahasa are an ethnic group located in the North Sulawesi province of Indonesia . The Minahasa speak Manado Malay , a language closely related to the Malay language....
  )
• Mongondow-Gorontalo languages (9 languages of Gorontalo
  Gorontalo
  
  The primary meaning of Gorontalo is a Gorontalo in the north of Sulawesi, Indonesia.Other geographical meanings of Gorontalo are:* Gorontalo Regency...
   and North Sulawesi
  North Sulawesi
  
  North Sulawesi is a Provinces of Indonesia of Indonesia. It is on the island of Sulawesi, and borders the province of Gorontalo to the west . The islands of Sangihe Islands and Talaud Islands form the northern part of the province, which border the Philippines....
   provinces, including Bolaang Mongondow
  Bolaang Mongondow language
  
  The Bolaang Mongondow language is spoken in the district of Bolaang Mongondow in North Sulawesi , Indonesia. An interesting characteristic of the language cannot pronounce the letter l, so it is spoken a somewhat like r instead....
  )