| Mandaya | |
|---|---|
| Caraga | |
| Native to | Philippines |
| Region | some parts ofDavao Oriental,Mindanao |
Native speakers | 250,000 (2010)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mry |
| Glottolog | kara1489 |
Mandaya is anAustronesian language ofMindanao in thePhilippines. It may be intelligible withMansaka.Mandaya is a language native to some parts of Davao Oriental, Mindanao.
Ethnologue reports that Mandaya is spoken inManay,Caraga,Baganga, andCateel municipalities ofDavao Oriental Province, as well as inDavao del Norte Province.
Ethnologue lists the following varieties of Mandaya.
Pallesen (1985)[2] lists the following varieties of Mandaya.
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Open | a |
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||
| Fricative | s | h | ||||
| Lateral | l | ʎ | ||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||
/d/ can be heard as [r] in intervocalic positions.[3]
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