Itbayat language
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Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines
Itbayat | |
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Ibatan | |
Itbayaten | |
Native to | Philippines |
Region | Itbayat Island |
Ethnicity | Ivatan people Yami people |
Native speakers | (3,500 cited 1996 census)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | itba1237 |
![]() Itbayat and the other Batanic languages |
The Itbayat language or Itbayaten (also known generically as Ibatan) is an Austronesian language, in the Batanic group, spoken on Itbayat Island in the Batanes Islands, Philippines.
Phonology
Vowels
/a, ɜ, i, o/
Vowels are contrasted between long and short vowels, for example as seen in the words tokod ('support') and tookod ('a kind of yam').[2]
Consonants
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||
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Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |||
Plosive/ Affricate |
voiceless | p | t | t͡ʃ | k | ʔ | |
voiced | b | d | d͡ʒ | ɡ | |||
Fricative | voiceless | (f) | s | h | |||
voiced | v | ɣ | ʁ | ||||
Approximant | l | j | w | ||||
Trill | r |
- /f/ is only used in loanwords but tends to become /p/.[2]
Grammar
Pronouns
The following set of pronouns is found in the Itbayat language.[2]
Nominative | Genitive | Locative | |||||
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free | bound | free | bound | ||||
1st person |
singular | yaken | ako | ñaken | ko | jaken | |
dual | – | ta | – | – | – | ||
plural | inclusive | yaten | ta | ñaten | ta | jaten | |
exclusive | yamen | kami | ñamen | namen | jamen | ||
2nd person |
singular | imo | ka | nimo | mo | dimo | |
plural | imiyo | kamo | nimiyo | miyo | dimiyo | ||
3rd person |
singular | – | – | niya/ña | na | dira | |
plural | sira | sira | nira | da | dira |
References
- ^ Ivatan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ a b c Yamada, Yukihiro (2002). Itbayat–English Dictionary (PDF). ELPR Publications Series A3-006. hdl:10108/75457.
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