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Buhid language

Buhid language

Austronesian language spoken in Philippines

The Buhid language (Buhid: ᝊᝓᝑᝒ) is a language spoken by Mangyans in the island of Mindoro, Philippines. It is divided into eastern and western dialects.

Quick Facts Native to, Region ...

It uses the Buhid script, which is encoded in the Unicode-Block Buhid (Buid) (1740–175F).

Distribution

Barbian (1977)[2] lists the following locations.

Phonology

Consonants

More information Labial, Alveolar ...

Vowels

More information Front, Central ...
  • Sounds /k, ɡ/ can be heard as fricatives [x, ɣ] in intervocalic position.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Buhid at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. [2]
    Barbian, Karl-Josef. 1977. English-Mangyan vocabulary. Cebu City: University of San Carlos.
  3. [3]
    Barham, R. Marie (1958). The phonemes of the Buhid (Mangyan) language of Eastern Mindoro, Philippines. Sydney: University of Sydney.

Sources

  • Barham, R. Marie. 1958. The phonemes of the Buhid (Mangyan) language of Eastern Mindoro, Philippines. Studies in Philippine linguistics 4-9. 4-9.
  • Pennoyer, F. Douglas. 1980. "Buhid and Tawbuid: A new subgrouping Mindoro, Philippines." In Paz B. Naylor (ed.), Austronesian studies: Papers from the Second Eastern Conference on Austronesian languages, 265-271. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan: Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies.


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