Tagabawa Phonemes

The Tagabawa language belongs to the Manobo subfamily of Philippine Languages. The Tagabawa people also refer to themeselves as Bagobo, a designation also applied to and used by speakers of Guiangan, a different language not belonging to the Manobo subfamily.

In phonemic inventory of Tagabawa consists of TWENTY-TWO segmental phonemes, of which sixteen are consonants and six are vowels.

 

CHART OF PHONEMES

The phonemes /p/, /t/, /k/ and /?/  are voiceless stops respectively at the bilabial, alveolar, velar and glottal positions. Each has a released allphone [p], [t], [k], and [?], occuring in syllable onsets, as in:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Source:

Phonemic Statement of Tagabawa

Carl DuBois and Lauretta DuBois