The Greater Central Philippine languages are a proposed subgroup of the Austronesian language family, defined by the sound change of Proto-Malayo-Polynesian R to g. They are spoken in the central and southern Philippines and in northern Sulawesi, Indonesia. The subgroup was first proposed by linguist Robert Blust in 1991 based on lexical and phonological evidence, and is accepted by most specialists in the field.
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Number of Languages RegionCentral and southern Philippines and northern Sulawesi, Indonesia 2 In the Other Atlases
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1. Glottolog: Greater Central Philippine (languoid record)
GlottologLanguoid record: child_language_count
"child_language_count": 96
Languoid record: level and category
"level": "family", "bookkeeping": false, "category": "Family"
View the Source 2. Greater Central Philippine languages - Wikipedia
Introduction, first paragraph
They are spoken in the central and southern parts of the Philippines and in northern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Infobox: protoname
Proto-Greater Central Philippine
View the SourceWikidata: Greater Central Philippine languages
Wikidata Q3832998, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
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