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Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Itneg is a South-Central Cordilleran dialect continuum found in the island of Luzon, Philippines. This language and Ilocano are spoken by the Itneg people (sometimes also referred to as the "Tingguian people") in Abra.
Itneg | |
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Native to | Philippines |
Region | Luzon |
Ethnicity | Igorot (Itneg) |
Native speakers | 17,000 (2003)[1] |
Official status | |
Recognised minority language in | Regional language in the Philippines |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Variously:itb – Binongan Itneg = Adasen language - Ba-i Lagayan and Tinegiti – Inlaod Itnegitt – Maeng Itnegtis – Masadiit Itnegity – Moyadan Itneg |
Glottolog | itne1252 |
Areas where the various Itneg dialects (including Kalinga Itneg) are spoken according to Ethnologue |
Several ethnic-Itneg dialects are taxonomically part of the neighboring Kalinga language.
Ethnologue reports the following locations for each of the five Itneg languages.
However, Ronald Himes (1997)[2] recognizes two dialects for Itneg, namely Binongan (eastern) and Inlaod (western).
Itneg languages almost sound the same with Ilocano, Pangasinan, and other Igorot languages.
Itneg speakers use 5 vowel sounds: /a/, /i/, /u/, /ɛ ~ e/, /o/.
Itneg features doubled consonants, so the language may sound guttural to Tagalog, Ilokano, and even Pangasinan speakers. The uniqueness of this circumstance is often expressed by saying Itneg speakers have "a hard tongue".
Itneg is also one of the Philippine languages which is excluded from [ɾ]-[d] allophony.
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