Greater Central Philippines, subtree of Austronesian: Blust 1991 http://new.multitree.org/trees/id/26017 Descendants: 49 Codes: gcph Alt. Names: Proto-Greater Central Philippines Node type: Subgroup Comments: “...I propose that Tagalog, Bikol, the Bisayan complex, South Mangyan (but not North Mangyan), the Palawanic languages (but not Kalamian), all of the languages of Mindanao except the South Mindanao group [i.e. the Bilic group], and the Gorontalo-Mongondow languages of Sulawesi (but not the more northerly Sangiric and Minahasan languages) continue an immediate protolanguage, here called 'Greater Central Philippines'” (Blust 1991:73). “The essential body of evidence supporting the Greater Central Philippines group is not phonological, but lexical” (Blust 1991:97). Publications: Blust, Robert A. 1991. The Greater Central Philippines Hypothesis, Oceanic Linguistics, no. 2 edn., vol. 30, 73-129. Central Philippine => Bikol, Tagalog, Bisayan, Mansakan Palawanic => Aborlan, Molbog, Palawano [but not Kalamian ~ Agutaynen] South Mangyan => Hanunoo + Buhid + Taubuid [but not North Mangyan] Mindanao => Danao + Manobo + Subanon Gorontalo-Mongondow [but not Sangiric or Minahasan]