Molbog-Bonggi languages

{{Short description|Austronesian language microgroup}} {{Infobox language family |name=Molbog-Bonggi |acceptance=disputed |region=Sabah |familycolor=Austronesian |fam2=Malayo-Polynesian |fam3=North Bornean |fam4=Northeast Sabahan |glotto=none }}

The '''Molbog-Bonggi languages''' are a proposed microgroup the Austronesian languages comprising Bonggi and Molbog, spoken in Sabah on Borneo, on Palawan in the Philippines, and on the islands in between.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Lobel |first=Jason William |date=2013 |title=Southwest Sabah Revisited |journal=Oceanic Linguistics |volume=52 |issue=1 |pages=36–68 |jstor=43286760 |doi=10.1353/ol.2013.0013 |s2cid=142990330 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Blust |first=Robert |date=2010 |title=The Greater North Borneo Hypothesis |journal=Oceanic Linguistics |volume=49 |issue=1 |pages=44–118 |jstor=40783586 |doi=10.1353/ol.0.0060 |s2cid=145459318 }}</ref>

The classification of Molbog is controversial. Thiessen (1981) groups Molbog with the Palawanic languages, based on shared phonological and lexical innovations.<ref>Thiessen, Henry Arnold (1981). ''Phonological reconstruction of Proto Palawan.'' Anthropological Papers, no. 10. Manila: National Museum of the Philippines.</ref> This classification is supported by Smith (2017).<ref>{{Cite thesis |last=Smith |first=Alexander |title=The Languages of Borneo: A Comprehensive Classification |date=2017 |degree=PhD |publisher=University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa |url=http://ling.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/SMITH_Alexander_Final_Dissertation.pdf}}</ref> An alternative view is taken by Lobel (2013), who puts Molbog together with Bonggi in a Molbog-Bonggi subgroup.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Lobel |first=Jason William |date=2013 |title=Southwest Sabah Revisited |journal=Oceanic Linguistics |volume=52 |issue=1 |pages=36–68 |jstor=43286760 |doi=10.1353/ol.2013.0013 |s2cid=142990330 }}</ref>

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Category:Languages of Palawan