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The Itbayat language or Itbayaten (also known generically as Ibatan) is an Austronesian language, in the Batanic group, spoken in the Batanes Islands, Philippines.

Itbayat
Ibatan
Itbayaten
Native toPhilippines
RegionItbayat Island
EthnicityIvatan people
Yami people
Native speakers
(3,500 cited 1996 census)[1]
Language family
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologitba1237
Itbayat and the other Batanic languages

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


Itbayat consonants
Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Uvular Glottal
Nasal m n ɲ ŋ
Plosive/
Affricate
voiceless p t t͡ʃ k ʔ
voiced b d d͡ʒ ɡ
Fricative voiceless (f) s ʁ h
voiced v ɣ
Approximant l j w
Trill r

Grammar



Pronouns


The following set of pronouns is found in the Itbayat language.[2]

Itbayat pronouns
Nominative Genitive Locative
freebound freebound
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


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

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