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Manobo, Western Bukidnon

A language of Philippines

ISO 639-3: mbb

Population	19,000 (2000).
Region	Mindanao, southern Bukidnon Province.
Language map	Southern Philippines, reference number 129
Dialects	Ilentungen, Kiriyenteken, Pulangiyen.
Classification	Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Philippine, Greater Central Philippine, Manobo, Central, West
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 45%. Literacy rate in L2: 45%. NT: 1978.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	Formerly swidden agriculturalists: upland rice; hunter-gatherers. Presently peasant agriculturalists: maize.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

BUENCONSEJO, José S., author. 2006. "On the relationships between words and melody in Palangihon-Umayamnon Bukidnon uwaging."  

ELKINS, Richard E., author. 1953. "The phonemes of Southern Bukidnon Manobo."

ELKINS, Richard E., author. 1963. "Partial loss of contrast between a and e in Western Bukidnon Manobo."

ELKINS, Richard E., author. 1964. "A matrix display of Western Bukidnon kinship."

ELKINS, Richard E., author. 1964. "The anit taboo: a Manobo cultural unit."

ELKINS, Richard E., author. 1966. "Culture change in a Philippine folk society."

ELKINS, Richard E., author. 1967. Major grammatical patterns of Western Bukidnon Manobo.

ELKINS, Richard E., author. 1968. "Three models of Western Bukidnon Manobo kinship."

ELKINS, Richard E., author. 1970. "Entailment rules for modal particles in Western Bukidnon Manobo."

ELKINS, Richard E., author. 1970. Major grammatical patterns of Western Bukidnon Manobo.  

ELKINS, Richard E., author. 1971. "Western Bukidnon Manobo sentence structure."

ELKINS, Richard E., author. 1972. Supposition rules for rhetorical questions in English and Western Bukidnon Manobo.

ELKINS, Richard E., author. 1973. "Pronominalization in Western Bukidnon Manobo folktales."

ELKINS, Richard E., author. 1977. "Deep structure case, verb stem classes, and Western Bukidnon Manobo lexicography."

ELKINS, Richard E., author. 1977. "Root of a language: How one Manobo word led to another."

ELKINS, Richard E., author. 1978. "Western Bukidnon Manobo [language texts]."  

ELKINS, Richard E., author. 1982. "The Proto Manobo kinship system."

ELKINS, Richard E., author. 1983. Culture stress and conversion: a study of response among the Western Bukidnon Manobo.

ELKINS, Richard E., author. 1984. "An extended Proto-Manobo word list."

ELKINS, Richard E., author. 1989. "SIL and applied linguistics in the Philippines."

ELKINS, Richard E., author. 1993. "Blood sacrifice and the dynamics of supernatural power among the Manobo of Mindanao: Some missiological implications."

ELKINS, Richard E., author. 1993. "Translating the New Testament into Manobo."

ELKINS, Richard E., compiler. 1968. Manobo-English dictionary.

ELKINS, Richard E.; HALE, Austin, authors. 1980. "Si Makut: The footprints of plot and other discourse systems upon the surface grammar of a Western Bukidnon Manobo folktale."  

GUZMAN-PINA, Lynne de, author. 1992. The Western Bukidnon Manobo project.

HEADLAND, Thomas N.; HIRES, George, authors. 1977. "A sketch of Western Bukidnon Manobo farming practices, past and present."

MCFARLAND, Austina; QUIMBA, Mafe, compilers; LIEFFERS, Jean, editor. 2003. Twelve stories for twelve stamps & words of wisdom : a cultural anthology of traditional literature from the Philippines.

REID, Lawrence A., author. 1971. Review of: Manobo-English dictionary, by Richard E. Elkins, compiler.

Vernacular Publications

A vocabulary of Central Mindanao Manobo. 1954.

Babasahing Pilipino, vol. 1, nos. 1-3. 1969.

Babasahing Pilipino, vol. 2, no. 1. 1972.

Ebasa kiw te Ininglis. 1979.

Ebasa kiw. 1970.

Edsugud ki ebasa. 1984.

Is duma he menge langgam dini te kelibutan. 1979.

Is kelibutan tew. 1978.

Is mevavà he diksyunari te heepat he kinegiyan (A short four-language dictionary: English, Western Bukidnon Manobo, Cebuano Visayan, Pilipino). 1979.

Kes hipenawan ni tumutuu. 1969.

Kes igkengezeruwi te etew. 1968.

Manobo alphabet. 1955.

Manobo primer 1, 2. 1955.

Menge tetezemen te menge meziyù he inged. 1979.

Menge tetezemen te Menuvù. 1968.

Si Tariri. 1974.

Sikan is peslayit ta. 1983.