Tboli language
| Tboli | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Philippines |
| Region | Mindanao |
| Ethnicity | Tboli |
|
Native speakers
|
95,000 (2000) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | |
| Glottolog | tbol1240 |
Tboli (roughly /təˈbɔːli/), also Tagabili or T'boli, is an Austronesian language spoken in the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, mainly in the province of South Cotabato but also in the neighboring provinces of Sultan Kudarat and Sarangani. According to the Philippine Census from 2000, close to 100,000 Filipinos identified T'boli or Tagabili as their native language.
Tboli is classified as a member of the South Mindanao or Bilic branch of the Philippine language families. It is related to Bagogo, Blaan, and Tiruray.
Tboli is spoken in the following areas (Ethnologue).
Dialects are Central Tboli, Western Tboli, and Southern Tboli (Ethnologue).
Awed, Underwood, and Van Wynen (2004) list seven vowel phonemes, namely /a i e ɛ ə o ɔ u/ and 15 consonant phonemes shown in the chart below. Note that Tboli lacks /p/ as a phoneme and has /f/ instead, which is a typological rarity among Philippine languages.
Final stress is the norm in Tboli rootwords; however the stress shifts to the previous syllable if the final vowel is a schwa. (Awed et al. 2004)
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