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Kalagan is an Austronesian dialect cluster of the Davao RegionofMindanao in the Philippines. It is also spoken in a few parts of Caraga, still in Mindanao.

Kalagan
Native to	Philippines
Region	Mindanao (Davao Region and a few parts in Caraga)
Ethnicity	Kalagan people (or "Caragans" or "Caragas")
Native speakers	160,000 (2000–2002)^[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Central Philippine Mansakan Kalagan
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously: `kqe` – Kalagan `kll` – Kagan Kalagan `klg` – Tagakaulu Kalagan
Glottolog	`west2552`

Distribution

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Ethnologue lists the following locations for Kalagan.

Davao del Sur Province: southwest of Davao City, along inland coasts
Compostela Valley and Davao del Norte provinces: including Samal and associated islands, and inland on eastern shores of Davao Gulf
Davao Oriental Province highlands

Kalagan dialects are:

Isamal dialect: spoken in Samal, Davao del Norte
Western Kalagan: spoken in Davao Oriental Province
Lupon: spoken in Davao del Sur Province, along the gulf down to Hagonoy and Guihing near Digos
Eastern Kalagan: spoken mainly in Davao Oriental Province

Other dialects include the Kagan Kalagan which is spoken near DigosinDavao del Sur Province where there are 6,000 speakers, and the Tagakaulo which is spoken mainly in Davao del Sur Province (western shore of Davao Gulf, from Digos south to Bugis and inland), Sarangani Province (Malungon Municipality), and also in Sultan Kudarat (Columbio municipality) and South Cotabato (Tampakan) provinces.

Phonology

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Consonants

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		Labial	Dental/ Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	voiceless	p	t		k	ʔ
Plosive	voiced	b	d		ɡ
Nasal		m	n		ŋ
Fricative			s
Rhotic			(ɾ)
Lateral			l
Approximant		w		j

/d/ can have an allophone of [ɾ] in intervocalic positions.

Vowels

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	Front	Central	Back
Close	i	ɨ	u
Mid	ɛ		u
Open	ɛ	a

/ɨ/ can be heard as [ə] in word-final stressed syllables when preceding /ʔ/.
/i, a/ can be heard as [ɪ, ʌ] in closed syllables.
/ɛ/ is heard as [æ] when after /m/.
/u/ is heard as [o] in word-final position.^[2]

References

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^ KalaganatEthnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Kagan KalaganatEthnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Tagakaulu KalaganatEthnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

^ Wendel, Asa & Dag (1978). Kaagan-Kalagan phonemic statement. Studies in Philippine Linguistics 2. pp. 191–203.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link) CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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