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Manobo, Dibabawon

A language of Philippines

ISO 639-3: mbd

Population	10,000 (1978 SIL).
Region	Manguagan, Davao del Norte, Mindanao.
Language map	Southern Philippines, reference number 152
Alternate names	Debabaon, Dibabaon, Mandaya
Classification	Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Philippine, Greater Central Philippine, Manobo, Central, East
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 23%. Literacy rate in L2: 23%. NT: 1978.
Writing system	Latin script.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Barnard, Myra Lou and Jannette Forster. 1954. "Introduction to Dibabaon sentence structure."

Barnard, Myra Lou and Jannette Forster. 1954. Dibabaon-Mandayan vocabulary.

Barnard, Myra Lou and Robert E. Longacre. 1968. "Lexicon versus grammar in Dibabawon procedural narrative discourse."  

Barnard, Myra Lou. 1967. "Dibabawon nonverbal clauses."

Forster, Jannette and Myra Lou Barnard, compilers. 1987. Dibabawon Manobo texts.

Forster, Jannette and Myra Lou Barnard. 1968. "A classification of Dibabawon active verbs."

Forster, Jannette. 1954. "Dibabaon texts."

Forster, Jannette. 1963. "Syllables and phonemes of Dibabawon."

Forster, Jannette. 1964. "Dual structure of Dibabawon verbal clauses."

Forster, Jannette. 1970. "Morphophonemic changes in Dibabawon."

Forster, Jannette. 1983. "Use of dialogue in Dibabawon narrative discourse."