Batak language (Philippines)

Not to be confused with Batak languages.

Batak is an Austronesian language spoken by the Batak people on Palawan Island in the Philippines. It is sometimes disambiguated from the Batak languages as Palawan Batak.

Batak
Palawan Batak
Native to	Philippines
Region	Palawan
Ethnicity	2,040 (1990 census)[1]
Native speakers	200 (2000)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Greater Central Philippine Palawanic Batak
Writing system	Tagbanwa script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bya
Glottolog	bata1301
ELP	Batak

Batak is spoken in the communities of Babuyan, Maoyon, Tanabag, Langogan, Tagnipa, Caramay, and Buayan. Surrounding languages include Southern Tagbanwa, Central Tagbanwa, Kuyonon, and Agutaynen.^[2]

Phonology

Consonants^[3]

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	voiceless	p	t		k	ʔ
	voiced	b	d		ɡ
Nasal		m	n		ŋ
Fricative			s
Lateral			l
Rhotic			ɾ~r
Approximant		w		j

Vowels^[3]

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i	ɨ	u
Open		a

Pronouns

Personal pronouns^[4]

	nominative	genitive		oblique
		enclitic	preposed
1.sg.	aku	ku	akɨn	kanakɨn
2.sg.	ikaw/ka	mu	imu	kanimu
3.sg.	kanya	ya	kanya	kanya
1.pl.dual	kita/ta	ta	atɨn	kanatɨn
1.pl.incl.	tami	tami	atɨn	kanatɨn
1.pl.excl.	kami	men	amɨn	kanamɨn
2.pl.	kamu	mi	imyu	kanimyu
3.pl.	sira	sira	sira	kanira

References

1. Batak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Lobel, Jason (2013). Philippine and North Bornean Languages: Issues in Description, Subgrouping, and Reconstruction (PDF) (PhD thesis). University of Hawaiʻi. p. 87.
3. Reid, Lawrence A. (1971). Philippine Minor Languages: Word Lists and Phonologies. Oceanic Linguistics Special Publications. University of Hawai'i Press. p. 4. ISBN 087022-691-6. JSTOR 20019132. LCCN 70-150659.
4. Morey, Virginia (1961). "Some particles and pronouns in Batak". Philippine Journal of Science. 90: 263–270.