Itbayat_language

Itbayat language

Itbayat language

Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines

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.

Quick Facts Native to, Region ...

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

More information Labial, Alveolar ...
  • /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]

More information Nominative, Genitive ...

References

  1. [1]
    Ivatan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. [2]
    Yamada, Yukihiro (2002). Itbayat–English Dictionary (PDF). ELPR Publications Series A3-006. hdl:10108/75457.

Further reading

  • Yamada, Yukihiro (2014). A Grammar of the Itbayat Language of the Philippines. Himeji, Japan.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)


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