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The Palawano languages are spoken in Palawan province in the Philippines by the Palawano people, numbering around 98,000 speakers. The Brooke's Point Palawano variant is featured in this video. In the 20th century, the Palawano people adopted the Tagbanwa script, calling it Ibalnan, with a vowel mark termed an ulit.

Palauan, a Malayo-Polynesian language, is native to the Republic of Palau, where it's spoken by approximately 17,000 people. It serves as one of the country's official languages alongside English and is widely used in daily life. Palauan's exact classification within the Malayo-Polynesian branch is uncertain, as it's not closely related to other languages in the group.

The origin of the name "Palawan" is uncertain, possibly from the Chinese word "Pa-Lao-Yu" meaning "Land of Beautiful Harbors" or the Indian word "Palawans" meaning "Territory." However, it's commonly believed to come from the Spanish word "Paragua" due to Palawan's resemblance to a closed umbrella. In contrast, "Palau" derives from the Palauan word for "village," ultimately from Proto-Austronesian *banua, and is unrelated to "Pulau," a Malay word meaning "island."

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