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The Tawbuid language is a language spoken by Tau-buid Mangyans in the province of Mindoro in the Philippines. It is divided into eastern and western dialects. The Bangon Mangyans also speak the western dialect of Tawbuid. Tau-buid (or Tawbuid) Mangyans live in Oriental Mindoro, in the municipalities of Socorro, Pinamalayan and Gloria; in Occidental Mindoro, in the municipalities of Sablayan and Calintaan. They are known for smoking pipes, starting as a child. Western Tawbuid Phonology Phonemes vowels i ɨ u e ɔ a consonants bilabial labiodental alveolar palatal velar plosive b p d t g k fricative f s nasal m n ŋ lateral l flap ɾ approximant w y Historical comparison Comparison with related languages show a gradual loss of /k/ -> /h/ -> /Ø/. e.g. Tagalog: ako, -> Buhid: aho -> Tawbuid: au ‘I’ kami -> hami -> ami ‘we’ There is a residual /k/ in the 1st person singular, in the affix /ak-/, usually shortened in speech to /k-/. E.g. kadasug kban (or akban) ‘I will arrive. ’ Glottals It will be noticed that there are no glottal phonemes, either /h/ or /ʔ/. The glottal stop /ʔ/ is absent as a phoneme in Tawbuid, though may be the realization of boundary between adjacent identical vowels. Normally though, in connected speech, two adjacent vowels are either merged to form a lengthened vowel or differentiated by stress. e.g. fakafanyuun ‘love’ may be pronounced /fakafanyu'ʔun/ or /fakafan'yu:n/ fagfanyaan ‘waiting place’ /fakfanya'ʔan/ or /fakfan'ya:n/ naali ‘dug’ /na'ali/ or /na'ʔali/ Notice that in the above, the stress precedes the glottal, whereas without a glottal, the stress is in the normal position for that particular stress pattern. Vowels following /i/ and /u/ offer different interpretations, as to whether a linking /y/ or /w/ is present. siu or siyu ‘elbow’ tua or tuwa grammatical marker Assimilation. There is a remarkable absence of assimliation at the point of articulation of nasals with following sounds. e.g. lanbung ‘shade, clothing’ (rather than */lambung/) sangdaw ‘animal trap’ (not */sandaw/) angru ‘dried bulu (kind of bamboo)’ (not */anru/) anbul ‘taken, died’ (not */ambul/) Description of phonemes /i/ close front spread occurs syllable initial, middle and final idu ‘dog’ lino ‘lake, sea, body of water’ katsi ‘now, today’ /e/ half close front spread established as a phoneme in contrast with /i/ by minimal pairs lili ‘said while tickling pig’ lele ‘tongue’ liplip ‘blink eyes, flash light’ leplep ‘tongue’ occurrence in similar environment: seud ‘steam or boil to cook’ siun ‘right-hand side’ Historically this was most likely /ay/. It is a common occurrence in languages around the world, for /ay/ to become /e/, as in French and English. (Tagalog also exhibits this trend, with ‘may’ being pronounced /me/ in connected speech. ) Comparison of Tawbuid with related languages shows this: wase ‘axe’ Cf other dialects, including Alangan, Ilocano: ‘wasay’ sunge ‘horn’ Cf. Tagalog ‘sungay’ abe ‘winged bean’ Cf. Iraya ‘abay’. Within Tawbuid, /ay/ and /e/ alternate with different grammatical forms of the same word. sable ‘cross a hill’ sablayan ‘the place where you arrive after crossing a hill’ -duge ‘a long time’ (root word) kadugean or kadugayan ‘elapsed time’ /a/ open central unrounded Vowel which occurs in syllable initial, mid and final positions. amlung ‘species of vine’ ban ‘species of tree’ fana ‘arrow’ /o/ half-open back rounded established as a phoneme in contrast with /u/ by minimal pairs biu ‘species of shell’ bio ‘eagle’ susu ‘breast’ soso ‘rinsed nami’ As with /e/, this is probably a historical development of /aw/. A similar process occurred in English and French. o ‘you (singular)’ Cf. Buhid ‘haw’. ano ‘fan palm’ Cf. Tagalog ‘anahaw’ fiso ‘bush knife’ Cf. Alangan, Indonesian, ‘pisaw’ /u/ close back rounded syllable initial, middle and final u ‘finger nail, toe nail’ ugak ‘crow’ fagut ‘tame’ alu ‘mortar’ /ɨ/ close central unrounded syllable initial middle and final vtv ‘immediate, subsequent’ gvnas ‘pull leaves off stalk’ In orthography, letter ‘v’ is used. In the 1950s when the Reeds started writing the language, that was a convenient (and unused) letter on the typewriter. It is the least frequent vowel, (> 1%) and in fact the least frequent phoneme (> 0.5%) in the language. Mostly occurs with /a/ or /ɨ/ in adjacent syllable. In all but one word (tibanglvn) /a/ and /ɨ/ are the only vowels used. /b/ voiced bilabial plosive. syllable initial and final e.g. bio ‘eagle’ kalub ‘fall face down’ /p/ voiceless bilabial plosive. environment: syllable initial (but rare word initial) and final variants: [p p] voiceless unaspirated bilabial plosive, environment: syllable initial patuy ‘compressed lump of soaked nami’ paras ‘small mouse species’ agipan ‘scorpion’ apalya ‘ampalaya, bitter gourd’ napsug ‘full, satisfied with food’ [pʰ pʰ] voiceless slightly aspirated bilabial plosive environment: word final tap ‘number’ /p/ is established as a phoneme in contrast with /f/ by the following: there is at least one minimal pair: tapi ‘count (imperative)’, from root ‘tap’ plus suffix -i tafi ‘slash, chop mark from a knife’ /p/ is in contrastive distribution with /f/, under the following circumstances: · /f/ is never syllable-final, but /p/ can be. · /f/ cannot be followed by /ɨ/, but /p/ frequently is. (e.g. /yapvs/ ‘skin boil’, /yafus/ ‘cockroach’) /d/ voiced alveolar plosive. syllable initial and final. dufa ‘armspan’ galiad ‘have a cut under one’s toe’ baladbad ‘woodpecker’ Realised as [t t] before voiceless consonants, most frequently in the verb form CVd-root-an. /kadkafanyu'an/ -> [katkafanyu'an katkafanyu'an] ‘loving one another’ /t/ voiceless alveolar plosive environment: syllable initial and final variants: [t t] voiceless unaspirated alveolar plosive environment: syllable initial take ‘arm’ makatu ‘able’ [tʰ tʰ] voiceless slightly aspirated (or released without aspiration) plosive environment: word final mabiat ‘heavy’ meut ‘vegetation’ /g/ voiced velar plosive environment: syllable initial and final, or initial cluster. gewan ‘come here’ ragbas ‘cut grass’ salug ‘floor’ realised as [k k] before voiceless consonants, for example in the verb prefix g-, and prefixes tag-, fag-. /gted/ -> [kted kted] ‘holding’ /'gfili/ -> ['kfili 'kfili] ‘choosing’ /tagti'ug/ -> [takti'ug takti'ug] ‘the one who is sleeping’ /k/ voiceless velar plosive environment: syllable initial and final [k k] voiceless unaspirated bilabial plosive, environment: syllable initial kesug ‘love, cherish’ nasuksuan ‘hidden’ [kʰ kʰ] voiceless slightly aspirated plosive environment: word final sinduk ‘peck’ atsik ‘click’ There is a tendency for the initial /k/ to be lost in Tawbuid compared to similar words in related languages. e.g. Tag. kasalanan > Tb. asalanan ‘sin’ Tag. Kinarawan > Tb. Inaruan ‘river name’ Tag. katay > Tb. ate ‘kill (root word)’ /f/ voiceless labiodental fricative environment: syllable initial only. See comments on /p/ for contrastive features. faglon ‘second most recently born child in a family’ fatfat ‘thrash around’ Rare in Austronesian languages. Historically related to Tagalog and other Philippine languages. /p/. e.g. afuy ‘fire’ fana ‘arrow’ fag grammatical linker (other Mangyan languages except Buhid, ‘pag’) /s/ voiceless alveolar fricative can occur in all syllable positions, and in the initial consonant cluster /st/. The affricate /ts/ is treated as a unit rather than two successive consonants. /m/ bilabial nasal can occur in all syllable positions. /n/ dental nasal environment: syllable initial and final and syllabic nanan ‘cooked sweet potato’ ntama [n'tama n'tama] ‘cooked’ /ŋ/ velar nasal environment: syllable initial and final and syllabic ngenge ‘baby, youngest child in family’ song ‘cough’ ngurang [ŋ'guraŋ ŋ'guraŋ] ‘matured, grew up’ /l/ voiced alveolar palatalized lateral environment: syllable initial and final laman ‘so that, in order to’ menal ‘bitter, astringent tasting’ /R/ voiced alveolar flap environment: syllable initial and (rarely) final ria ‘ginger’ makerker ‘shoddy’ /w/ voiced bilabial approximant environment: syllable initial and final waswas ‘chop with knife’ taw ‘person’ madaylaw ‘tiring’ /y/ voiced palatal approximant environment: syllable initial and final yukyuk ‘kind of spirit’ sumyu ‘finger, toe’ advy ‘expression of pain’ Stress patterns Primary stress in Tawbuid is either final or penultimate. Most words are stressed unpredictably, and in some speakers, all syllables seem to be equally stressed. Modification in stress occurs in affective speech (see below). Some syllable patterns have predictable stress. A word containing two adjacent syllables with CVC patterns are stressed on the second of those two syllables, whether final or not. /nabag'bag/ ‘attacked with knife’ /bulat'lat/ ‘species of grass’ /fag'lon/ ‘second most recently born child’ /fan'dagum/ ‘charm made of resin’ /kafan'donan/ ‘night is falling’ Words with two identical CVC patterns interrupted by /-ar-/ or /-al-/ are also stressed on the second of those two CVC syllables. /falung'fung/ ‘sapling’ /balang'bang/ ‘thigh’ Where the final and penultimate syllables are open, and the vowels are the same, the stress is penultimate. susu ‘breast’ lele ‘tongue’ langipi ‘wasp species’ gigi ‘dent’ soso ‘rinsed nami’ vtv ‘immediate’ But when the vowels are different, stress can occur unpredictably. final: /nla'fi/ ‘flattened’ penultimate: /'lafi/ ‘shoulder’ final: /a'fuy/ ‘fire’ penultimate /'kafuy/ ‘cry noiselessly in sleep’ A root word can change its stress when affixes are added, because affixes carry their own inherent stress. /'sadi/ ‘one’ (penultimate) /ma'sadi/ ‘united’ (penultimate) /fagmasadi'un/ ‘unity’ (final) /namasadi'an/ ‘agreement’ (final) In affective speech (utterances in which the speaker wishes to convey emotion), lengthening may change stress: /na'taw/ ‘what?’ may become /:na:taw/ when said with rising pitch on the first syllable and low pitch on the second. This indicates acute surprise. Secondary stress and tertiary stress. In words of more than three syllables there is a secondary and even a tertiary stress. /²fagma³balyan¹anun/ ‘power’ /³fag²kedkesu¹ganun/ ‘mutual love’ Accent: Within the Western Tawbuid region, there are distinctive accents as well as vocabulary preferences. Taking the rebuke lag katanya ‘don’t do that’: Balani: mid, mid, mid-to-high rising, low. Lagutay: mid-low falling, mid, mid-low falling, mid-low falling Anawin: mid, mid, mid-semitone higher, mid. A rebuke or any utterance conveying a negative emotion is frequently said with lips rounded throughout. Syllable patterns V monosyllabic words are: e, o, u Some words beginning with a vowel have a V syllable initial pattern. alu, ogo, umu, vtv ‘pestle’, ‘water-skater’, ‘royal jelly’, ‘immediate, subsequent’ V-CV emad, ifag ‘louse’, ‘sister/brother-in-law’ V-CVC C – in the case of the completed aspect prefix /n-/ ndasug ‘arrived’ C-CV-CVC VC agbvt, ‘great, large’ VC-CVC amlung ‘species of vine’ ekwan ‘share of harvest’ CVC ban ‘species of tree’ CVC dot ‘species of snake’ tap ‘number’ faglon ‘second youngest child’ CVC-CVC fadeg ‘field’ CV-CVC CCV ste ‘here’ CCV glo, gbul ‘going’, ‘getting’ CCV tsiuy ‘there’ CCV-VC CVC with semivowels inday ‘which?’ VC-CVC araw ‘forest’ V-CVC fuyfurit ‘species of bat’ CVC-CV-CVC baybay ‘plentiful’ (root) CVC-CVC@en
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