Hanunó'o_language

Hanunoo language

Hanunoo language

Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines

Hanunoo, or Hanunó'o (IPA: [hanunuʔɔ]), is a language spoken by Mangyans in the island of Mindoro, Philippines.

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It is written in the Hanunoo script.

Phonology

Consonants

Hanunoo has 16 consonant phonemes.

More information Labial, Alveolar ...
  1. Hanunoo does not write glottal stops.

Vowels

More information Front, Central ...
  • /a i/ can be heard as [ə ɪ] within closed syllables.
  • /u/ can be heard as [o] within word-final syllables.
  • /i/ can be heard as an open-mid [ɛ] among some speakers in certain words.[3]

Diphthongs

Hanunoo also has four diphthongs: /ai̯/, /au̯/, /iu̯/, and /ui̯/.[4]

Distribution

Hanunoo is spoken in the following locations according to Barbian (1977):[5]

References

  1. [1]
    Hanunoo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. [2]
    Epo 2014, pp. 5, 9.
  3. [3]
    Epo 2014, pp. 6–7.
  4. [4]
    Epo 2014, p. 7.
  5. [5]
    Barbian, Karl-Josef (1977). English-Mangyan Vocabulary. Cebu City: University of San Carlos.

Bibliography

Further reading

  • Conklin, Harold (1949). A Brief Description of Hanunoo Morphology and Syntax. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Conklin, Harold C. (1953). Hanunóo-English Vocabulary. University of California Publications in Linguistics. Vol. 9. Berkeley: University of California Press. OCLC 3912044.
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