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Central Tagbanwa love poem

Salamin

Yan akeng rupa sikayan it salamin

I"piyaka magayen, temed.

Basta mabilisan ta'mag kailang naga,

Yan pinaka kiya'pusan "maal ko"

Translated into Central Tagbanwa by Cingia Abala
Tagbanwa love poem

Poetry book "La Glace"
Original version
→ French poem ←

Central Tagbanwa language

My little love poem is translated here into Central Tagbanwa, the Austronesian, Palawanic language of the Greater Central Philippine languages group, spoken in the Philippines, in the Mimaropa region (Palawan Island).

Central Tagbanwa, which is a virtually extinct language, since it probably has no more than 1,000 speakers, is not mutually intelligible with the other Tagbanwa languages ​​(Calamian Tagbanwa and Aborlan Tagbanwa).

The Tagbanwa who spoke this language, gradually abandoned it in favor of Palawano, Tagalog of course, and other surrounding languages ​​(for example the Cuyonon).

Other Greater Central Philippine languages
Aborlan Tagbanua - Tagalog
Poem translated into Tagbanwa (557 languages)