Cotabato Manobo language

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Cotabato Manobo (Dulangan Manobo) is a Manobo language spoken in Mindanao, the Philippines. Dialects include Tasaday and Blit.

Cotabato Manobo
Region	Sultan Kudarat, Mindanao, the Philippines
Native speakers	30,000 (2007)^[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Greater Central Philippine Manobo South Cotabato Manobo
Dialects	Tasaday Blit
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`mta`
Glottolog	`cota1241`
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Distribution

Cotabato Manobo is spoken in the Kalamansig, Palimbang, and Ninoy Aquino municipalities of Sultan Kudarat Province and the T'Boli municipality of South Cotabato Province.^[2]

/i u/ are realized as [ɪ ʊ]inclosed syllables.
/ɛ/ is realized as [e] when it is preceded by /k/ and in an open syllable.
/a/ is realized as [ɜ] when it is followed by /h/or/ʔ/.
/ɔ/ is realized as [ɒ] when it is followed by /h/, /ʔ/, or /ɡ/, or when word-initial and followed by /k/. For some speakers it may also be realized as [ɒ] before or after /k/ when not word-initial.

Cotabato Manobo consonants
		Labial	Coronal	Dorsal	Glottal
Nasal		m	n	ŋ
Plosive	voiced	b	d	ɡ
Plosive	voiceless		t	k	ʔ
Fricative		ɸ	s		h
Approximant		w	l	j

^ "Manobo, Cotabato". Ethnologue.