Calamian | |
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Geographic distribution |
islands between Mindoro and Palawan |
Linguistic classification |
Austronesian
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Glottolog | kala1389 |
The Calamian languages (also spelled Kalamian) are a small cluster of languages spoken in the Philippines:
These are among the few languages of the Philippines which continue to be written in indigenous scripts, though mostly for poetry.
Adelaar and Himmelmann (2005) make Kalamian a primary branch of the Philippine language family.