Palawano, Brooke’s Point

PLW

developing

Alternate Names: Brooke’s Point Palawan, Palawan, Palawanun, Palaweño

Dialects: South Palawano (Bugsuk Palawano). Intelligibility of Central Palawano , 76%; of Southwest Palawano , 68%. Lexical similarity: 82% with Quezon Palawano , (Central), 85% with Southwest Palawano ,, 83% with South Palawano.

Genealogy:

Austronesian

Malayo-Polynesian

Philippine

Greater Central Philippine

Palawanic

Demographics: 14,400 (2000).

Language Use: Low comprehension of Filipino [fil].

Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: 10%. Literacy rate in L2: 10% in Filipino [fil] (2007 SIL). Bible portions: 1992–2000.

Writing System: Latin

Nation of Origin: Philippines