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Manobo, Cotabato

A language of Philippines

ISO 639-3: mta

Population	30,000 (2007 SIL), increasing. 5,000 monolinguals. Ethnic population: 30,000.
Region	Sultan Kudarat Province, Mindanao.
Language map	Southern Philippines, reference number 134
Alternate names	Dulangan Manobo
Dialects	Tasaday, Blit.
Classification	Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Philippine, Greater Central Philippine, Manobo, South
Language use	Vigorous. All domains. All ages. Positive attitude. Some also use Cebuano [ceb], Filipino [fil], or Ilongot [ilk].
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 20%–25%. Literacy rate in L2: 20%–25%. Radio programs. Dictionary. NT: 1988.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	Swidden agriculturalists. Traditional religion, Christian.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

BARNARD, Myra Lou; FORSBERG, Vivian; MARYOTT, Alice L., authors. 1955. "Cotabato Manobo survey."

BERREMAN, Gerald D., author. 1992. "The Tasaday: Stone Age survivors or Space Age fakes?."

BODLEY, John H., author. 1992. "The Tasaday debate and indigenous peoples."

CARNEIRO, Robert L., author. 1992. "The Tasaday ‘stone axes’—what do they tell us?."

DUHAYLUNGSOD, Levita; HYNDMAN, David C., authors. 1992. "Creeping resource exploitation in the Tboli homeland: Political ecology of the Tasaday hoax."

ELKINS, Richard E., author. 1971. "Comments on ‘The Tasaday language so far’, by Teodoro A. Llamzon."

ELKINS, Richard E., author. 1992. "The Tasaday: Some observations."

ERRINGTON, Ellen, author. 1998. From non-literate to literate practice: The process and effects of introducing a writing system in a cultural community of the Republic of the Philippines.

ERRINGTON, Ross, author. 1979. "A transition network grammar of Cotabato Manobo."  

ERRINGTON, Ross, author. 1979. "Discourse types and tense patterns in Cotabato Manobo."  

ERRINGTON, Ross, author. 1984. "Hortatory mitigation: The case of the camouflaged backbone."  

ERRINGTON, Ross, author. 1988. "The magic of the Cotabato Manobos."  

FANKHAUSER, Barry, author. 1992. "A nutritional analysis of the Philippine Tasaday diet."

FRAISER, Douglas M., author. 1999. In search of a place: analysis of a land conflict involving the Cotabato Manobo people.  

FRAISER, Douglas M., author. 2001. "Land conflict of the Cotabato Manobo people."

FRAISER, Douglas M., author. 2007. Loggers, settlers, and tribesmen in the mountain forests of the Philippines: the evolution of indigenous social organization in response to environmental invasions.

GUIL-AN, Leonida, author. 2001. Transitional literacy among the Cotabato Manobo, Philippines.

HEADLAND, Thomas N., author. 1989. "Primitives or poseurs?."

HEADLAND, Thomas N., author. 1990. "What are plant specifics?—a critique of Olofson’s search for the Tasady."

HEADLAND, Thomas N., author. 1992. "Conclusion—the Tasaday: a hoax or not?."

HEADLAND, Thomas N., author. 1992. "Introduction—background: a historical review."

HEADLAND, Thomas N., author. 1992. "What did the Tasaday eat?."

HEADLAND, Thomas N., author. 1993. "The Tasaday ‘cave people’."

HEADLAND, Thomas N., author. 1994. "The Tasaday: Stone age cave dwellers or the most elaborate hoax in scientific history?."

HEADLAND, Thomas N., author. 1996. "Tasaday controversy."

HEADLAND, Thomas N., editor. 1992. The Tasaday controversy: Assessing the evidence.

ITEN, Oswald, author. 1992. "The ‘Tasaday’ and the press."

JOHNSTON, E. Clay, author. 1975. "The verb affixation of Cotabato Manobo."

JOHNSTON, E. Clay, author. 1979. "Cotabato Manobo first person narrative: Major features of discourse and paragraph."

JOHNSTON, E. Clay, author. 1992. "The Tasaday language: Is it Cotabato Manobo?."

KERR, Harland B., author. 1965. "The case-marking and classifying function of Cotabato Manobo voice affixes."

KERR, Harland B., author. 1988. "Cotabato Manobo ethnography."  

KERR, Harland B., author. 1988. "Cotabato Manobo grammar."  

LEE, Richard B., author. 1992. "Making sense of the Tasaday: Three discourses."

LONGACRE, William A., author. 1992. "Cave archaeology: a possible solution to the Tasaday problem."

LYMAN, Thomas, author. 1971. "Hierarchical phonological features of Cotabato Manobo."

LYNIP, Stephen A., author. 1988. Culture change among the Cotabato Manobo: Community health education and literacy programming in the milieu of social upheaval.

MALONE, Dennis L.; MALONE, Susan E., authors. 2001. "Literacy for development in multilingual contexts: five characteristics of sustainable programs."

MOLONY, Carol H., author. 1992. "The Tasaday language: Evidence for authenticity?."

NABAYRA, Emmanuel S.; ROGEL-RARA, Amelia, authors. 1992. "The genealogical evidence."

PERALTA, Jesus T., author. 1992. "The role of the National Museum of the Philippines in the Tasaday issue."

REID, Lawrence A., author. 1992. "The Tasaday language: a key to Tasaday prehistory."

SALAZAR, Zeus A., author. 1992. "Third and final footnote on the Tasaday."

SPONSEL, Leslie E., author. 1992. "Our fascination with the Tasaday: Anthropological images and images of anthropology."

Vernacular Publications

Bumasa liblu sebaen / duwa. 1962.

Eg-inauwen ta sa kebasa. 1984.

Ini sa Edungan sa kebasa ta. 1975.

Ini sa igtulù diyà endà duen eglinadu. 1965.

Ini sa kebulung sa etaw amuk egkeimetan wayeg sa lawa di. 1987.

Ini sa keipat ta sa pused batà magtu lesut. 1987.

Ini sa libelu denu sa medoo balangan bulung. 1989.

Ini sa libelu eg-inau kabit-kabit. 1992.

Ini sa libelu igpegeatuk. 1977.

Ini sa medoo gugud denu sa kepigtuu etaw diyà si Nemula. 1991.

Ini sa medoo kagi diyà sa epat balangan kagi. 1979.  

Ini sa medoo telaki. 1986.

Ini sa neukitan i Ponduan. 1987.

Ini sa ukit ta egbael basakan. 1993.

Ini sa ukit ta eghagtay sedà. 1992.

Ini sa ukit ta eg-ipat tanà ta kayu. 1997.

Ini ukit ta egbael sa hinemulaan pinengalap. 1997.

Keinau sa kagi Pilipino. 1993.

Libelu sebaen / duwa / telu / epat. 1965.

Libelu sebaen / duwa. 1978.

Mekebasa ka siini libelu?. 1978.

Mekebilang ki, libelu 1, 2, [3]. 1981.

Mekeesà ki. 1993.

Mekesulat ki. 1978.

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

Philippine reader, vol. 1, no. 2. 1966.

S.A.L.T.: Sa denu sa kehemula diyà tuduk. 1988.

Sa adat ta anì kumebagel sa lawa sa medoo anak ta. 1983.

Sa egoh i amay Adug netuuwan: Libelu denu sa linadu bahung. 1987.

Sa egoh i Kétél nedaig: Libelu denu sa nedaig. 1987.

Sa ketabang i Datù: Libelu denu sa linadu sipaun. 1987.

Sa libelu kesetawit diyà sa telu balangan kagi (Libro ng pag-uusap na nasa tatlong salita: a phrase book in three languages). 1992.

Sa libelu mekebulig sa tegetulù kepetéél kebasa. 1992.

Sak egoh i inay i Adug neketiig. 1987.

Sak egoh i Tambayangan egbuhà depanug: Libelu denu sa linadu egbuhà depanug. 1987.

Sepulù balangan telaki diyà kagi Menubù. 1965.

Si Talili. 1981.

Tuladen liblu Manubù. 1959.