The Kalamian languages are a small cluster of languages spoken in the Philippines, grouping together Kalamian Tagbanwa and Agutaynen

Agutaynen language

The Agutaynen language is spoken on Agutaya Island in the province of Palawan in the Philippines.-External links:*...

. These are among the few languages of the Philippines which continue to be written in indigenous scripts

Ancient Philippine scripts

Ancient Philippine scripts are systems of writing that developed and flourished in the Philippine islands in about 300 BC. These scripts are related to other Southeast Asian systems of writing that developed from South Indian Brahmi scripts used in Asoka Inscriptions and Pallava Grantha, a type of...

, though mostly for poetry.

Classification

Adelaar and Himmelmann (2005) make Kalamian a primary branch of the Philippine language

Philippine languages

The Philippine languages are a 1991 proposal by Robert Blust that all the languages of the Philippines and northern Sulawesi—except Sama–Bajaw and a few languages of Palawan—form a subfamily of Austronesian languages...

 family. However, a 2008 analysis of the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database supports Kalamian as the family most closely related to the Palawan languages, as part of the Palawanic

Palawanic languages

The Palawanic languages are the languages spoken on the islands of Mindoro, Palawan, and nearby islets in the Philippines.The languages are,*South Mangyan*Kalamian–Palawan**Kalamian**Palawan...

family.