Greater Central Philippine languages

Greater Central Philippine
Greater Central Philippine
Geographic; distribution	Philippines; parts of Sabah,Malaysia; Northern Sulawesi, Indonesia
Linguistic classification	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine? Greater Central Philippine; ; ;
Proto-language	Proto-Greater Central Philippine
Subdivisions	Central Philippine; South Mangyan; Palawanic; Subanen; Danao; Manobo; Gorontalo–Mongondow;
Glottolog	grea1284

The Greater Central Philippine languages are a proposed subgroup of the Austronesian language family, defined by the change of Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *R to *g. They are spoken in the central and southern parts of the Philippines, eastern and western parts of Sabah, Malaysia and in northern Sulawesi, Indonesia. This subgroup was first proposed by Robert Blust (1991) based on lexical and phonological evidence, and is accepted by most specialists in the field.

Most of the major languages of the Philippines belong to the Greater Central Philippine subgroup: Tagalog, the Visayan languages Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Waray; Central Bikol, the Danao languages Maranao and Magindanaon. On the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia, Gorontalo is the third-largest language by number of speakers.

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