Hanunoo language
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| Hanunoo | |
|---|---|
| Hanunó'o | |
| ᜱᜨᜳᜨᜳᜢ | |
| Native to | Philippines |
| Region | Mimaropa |
Native speakers | 13,000 (2000) |
| Hanunuo | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | hnn |
| Glottolog | hanu1241 |
Hanunoo, or Hanunó'o (IPA: [hanunuʔɔ]), is a language spoken by Mangyans in the island of Mindoro, Philippines.
It is written in the Hanunoo script.
Phonology
Consonants
Hanunoo has 16 consonant phonemes.
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p ⟨p⟩ | t ⟨t⟩ | k ⟨k⟩ | ʔ | |
| voiced | b ⟨b⟩ | d ⟨d⟩ | ɡ ⟨g⟩ | |||
| Nasal | m ⟨m⟩ | n ⟨n⟩ | ŋ ⟨ng⟩ | |||
| Fricative | s ⟨s⟩ | h ⟨h⟩ | ||||
| Trill | r ⟨r⟩ | |||||
| Lateral | l ⟨l⟩ | |||||
| Approximant | w ⟨w⟩ | j ⟨y⟩ | ||||
- ^ Hanunoo does not write glottal stops.
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i ⟨i⟩ | u ⟨u⟩ | |
| Mid | (ə) | ||
| Open | a ⟨a⟩ |
- /a i/ can be heard as within closed syllables.
- /u/ can be heard as within word-final syllables.
- /i/ can be heard as an open-mid among some speakers in certain words.
Diphthongs
Hanunoo also has four diphthongs: /ai̯/, /au̯/, /iu̯/, and /ui̯/.
Distribution
Hanunoo is spoken in the following locations according to Barbian (1977):
- Barrio Tugtugin, San Jose, Occidental Mindoro
- Naluak, Magsaysay, Occidental Mindoro (on the upper Caguray River)
- Bamban, Magsaysay, Occidental Mindoro (also with Ratagnon and Bisayan residents)
- Barrio Panaytayan, Mansalay, Oriental Mindoro (about 5 km (3.1 mi) from the highway in the mountains southwest of Mansalay)
References
Bibliography
- Epo, Yrrah Jane S. (2014). Discourse Analysis of Suyot: A Hanunuo-Mangyan Folk Narrative (MA thesis). Payap University. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.695.4257.
Further reading
External links
- Hanunuo Archived 2016-10-07 at the Wayback Machine, Mangyan Heritage Center. (About the people.)
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