Alternate Names: Matig-Salug Manobo
Dialects: Kulamanen. Tigwa has marginal intelligibility of Matigsalug. Tala Ingod may have adequate intelligibility of Matigsalug.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 50,000 (2010 SIL), increasing. 5,000 monolinguals.
Language Use: Home, neighborhood, church. All ages. Positive attitudes. Increasingly use Cebuano [ceb].
Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: 10%. Literacy rate in L2: 25%. Poetry. New media. Radio programs. Films. Videos. Dictionary. NT: 2010.
Typology: VSO; prepositions; genitives after noun heads; articles, adjectives, and numerals before noun heads; question word in sentence-initial position; 3 maximum prefixes, 2 maximum suffixes; ergativity; passives; causatives; comparatives; CV, CVC; nontonal.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Philippines
Other Comments: Christian, traditional religion.