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Manobo, Ilianen

A language of Philippines

ISO 639-3: mbi

Population	14,600 (2000). Few monolinguals.
Region	Northern Cotabato, Mindanao. Being pushed more north and east up to Obo Manobo country.
Language map	Southern Philippines, reference number 130
Alternate names	Ilianen
Dialects	Livunganen, Puleniyan, Arkan Valley.
Classification	Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Philippine, Greater Central Philippine, Manobo, Central, West
Language use	Vigorous. All domains. Positive attitude. Most also use Cebuano [ceb], Maguindanao [mdh], or Filipino [fil].
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 15%–20%. Literacy rate in L2: 15%–20%. NT: 1989.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	Unable to enforce their traditional land claims. Swidden agriculturalists: maize, horticulture; hunter-gatherers; fishermen. Corn as cash crop. Traditional religion, Christian, Muslim.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Ambangan, Adriano and others. 2008. Narrative episodes from the Tulalang epic.

Brichoux, Robert and Felicia Brichoux. 1963. "Pattern congruity in Ilianen Manobo phonology."

Brichoux, Robert and Felicia Brichoux. 1977. "A sketch of Ilianen Manobo inflection."  

Longacre, Robert E., editor. 1971. Philippine discourse and paragraph studies in memory of Betty McLachlin.

Shand, Jean. 1964. "A matrix of introducer tagmemes."

Shand, Jean. 1964. "Categories and markers of tense, focus and mode in Ilianen Manobo."

Shand, Jean. 1970. "Couplets in Manobo."

Shand, Jean. 1972. "Suggestions for revision of phonemic analysis and orthography in Ilianen Manobo."

Shand, Jean. 1974. "Primer stories for the Ilianen Manobo."

Shand, Jean. 1976. "Ilianen Manobo sentence structure."

Wrigglesworth, Hazel and Pengendà Mengsenggilid. 1993. Good character and bad character: The Manobo storytelling audience as society’s jurors.

Wrigglesworth, Hazel J. 1971. "Discourse and paragraph structure of Ilianen Manobo."

Wrigglesworth, Hazel J. 1977. "Sociolinguistic features of narrative discourse in Ilianen Manobo."

Wrigglesworth, Hazel J. 1977. "Tulalang slays the dragon: a complete song from the Ilianen Manobo epic of Tulalang."

Wrigglesworth, Hazel J. 1980. "Rhetorical devices distinguishing the genre of folktale (fiction) from that of oral history (fact) in Ilianen Manobo narrative discourse."

Wrigglesworth, Hazel J. 1984. "Manobo storytelling as approximation to drama."

Wrigglesworth, Hazel J., compiler. 1981. An anthology of Ilianen Manobo folktales.

Wrigglesworth, Hazel J., compiler; Ampatuan Ampalid. 2004. The song from the mango tree: a Manobo raconteur introduces his repertoire of oral literature with a favourite trickster narrative.

Vernacular Publications

Deruwa ne teremà te Menuvù. 1967.

Ebasa ki. 1960.

Ilianen Manobo Ikerua ne riberuʼ. [1965].

Ke bulew ne manuk. [1960].

Ke kinelaug ni ebperetiyaya. 1977.

Ke lukes ne maritan. [1960].

Ke rudsuan te kebpengadì. 1983.

Ked-anum te bei te wey sanley. 1965.

Meamhe ki ebperulamula diya te wey te boby. 1965.

Panseb paʼ na mge etew. 1969.

Pehenayan / Ikeruwa / Iketelu ne riberu. 1960.

Pehenayan / Ikeruwa / Iketelu ne riberu. 1965.

Pehenayan ne riberu. 1959.

Pehenayan ne riberuʼ. 1969.

Philippine reader, vol 1, no. 3. 1967.

Philippine reader, vol. 1, no. 1. 1965.

Si Beuu wey Pelaas wey Ke erimaung wey selareng. 1965.

Si mama wey ke buaya. 1963.

Si mehasa wey si telingenup. 1985.

Si Pelaas wey si Beriengkati. 1984.

Si Pilanduk wey si Umeremaya. 1985.

Tudtul mekeatag te ebpuunan te mge raru tew. 1968.