In Oriental Mindoro, Eastern Tawbuid (also known as Bangon) is spoken by 1,130 people in the municipalities of Socorro, Pinamalayan, and Gloria.
[1] In Occidental Mindoro, Western Tawbuid (also known as Batangan) is spoken by 6,810 people in the municipalities of Sablayan and Calintaan.
The glottal stop [ʔ] may be realized between adjacent identical vowels.
For example: There is a remarkable absence of assimilation at the point of articulation of nasals with following sounds.
/a/ open central unrounded Vowel which occurs in syllable-initial, mid and final positions.
/o/ half-open back rounded Established as a phoneme in contrast with /u/ by minimal pairs As with /e/, this is probably a historical development of /aw/.
In the 1950s when the Reeds started writing the language, that was a convenient (and unused) letter on the typewriter.
For example: /p/ voiceless bilabial plosive Environment: syllable-initial (but rare word-initial) and final Variants: [p] voiceless unaspirated bilabial plosive Environment: syllable-initial [pʰ] voiceless slightly aspirated bilabial plosive Environment: word-final /p/ is established as a phoneme in contrast with /f/ by the following: There is at least one minimal pair: /p/ is in contrastive distribution with /f/ under the following circumstances: /d/ voiced alveolar plosive Syllable-initial and final.
Realised as [t] before voiceless consonants, most frequently in the verb form CVd-root-an.
/k/ voiceless velar plosive Environment: syllable-initial and final [k] voiceless unaspirated bilabial plosive Environment: syllable-initial [kʰ] voiceless slightly aspirated plosive Environment: word-final There is a tendency for the initial /k/ to be lost in Tawbuid compared to similar words in related languages.
For example: /s/ voiceless alveolar fricative Can occur in all syllable positions, and in the initial consonant cluster /st/.