28199 Central Tagbanwa 100-999 800-1000 This study was concentrated in Buding, a community where only 20% of the population was Tagbanwa. Gi, a more inland village, has 82% Tabganwa. It is reasonable to hypothesize that the language situation in Gi might be more optimistic than the language situation in Buding. Central Tagbanwa: a Philippine language on the brink of extinction: sociolinguistics, grammar, and lexicon On Fewer than 1,000 100-999