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The Mamanwa language is a Central Philippine language spoken in the provinces of Agusan del Norte and Surigao in Mindanao, Philippines. It had about 5,000 speakers in 1990, mostly Mamanwa. Mamanwa is a grammatically conservative language, retaining a three-way deictic distinction in its articles which elsewhere is only preserved in some of the Batanic languages.〔Ross, Malcom (2005). "(The Batanic languages in relation to the early history of the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of Austronesian )." ''Journal of Austronesian Studies'' 1/2:1-24.〕 Before the arrival of Mamanwa speakers in central Samar Island, there had been an earlier group of Negritos on the island (Lobel 2013:92). According to Lobel (2013), the Samar Agta may have switched to Waray-Waray or Northern Samarenyo, or even possibly Mamanwa. Also, Francisco Combes, a Spanish friar, had observed the presence of Negritos in the Zamboanga Peninsula “in the Misamis strip” in 1645, although no linguistic data had ever been collected (Lobel 2013:93). ==References== *Lobel, Jason William. 2013. (''Philippine and North Bornean languages: issues in description, subgrouping, and reconstruction'' ). Ph.D. dissertation. Manoa: University of Hawai'i at Manoa. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mamanwa language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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