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Molbog

A language of Philippines

ISO 639-3: pwm

Population	6,680 in Philippines (1990 census). Population total all countries: 13,360.
Region	Balabac Island, southern Palawan. Also in Malaysia (Sabah).
Language map	Southern Philippines, reference number 114
Alternate names	Molbog Palawan
Dialects	Brooke’s Point Palawano [plw] has 27% intelligibility of Molbog; South Palawano 55%. Lexical similarity: 69% with Quezon Palawano [plc] (Central).
Classification	Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Philippine, Greater Central Philippine, Palawanic
Language use	Also use Mapun [sjm] or Filipino [fil].
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 5%. Literacy rate in L2: 7%. Bible portions: 1977.
Writing system	Latin script.

Also spoken in:

Malaysia (Sabah)

Language name	Molbog
Population	6,680 in Malaysia (1990 Census).
Region	Banggi Island.
Language map	Malaysia - Sabah, reference number 107
Language use	Use Mapun [sjm] as L2.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

INGLIS, Douglas, author. 1997. "Salience hierarchy in a Molbog text."

INGLIS, Douglas, author. 1999. Some discourse evidence for analyzing Molbog as an ergative language.

THIESSEN, H. Arnold, author. 1977. "The phonemic consequences of two morphophonemic rules in Molbog."  

THIESSEN, H. Arnold; ZORC, R. David, authors. 1995. "Molbog: introduction and wordlist."