Yogad language

Yogad is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in Echague and other nearby towns in Isabela province in northern Philippines. The 1990 census claimed there were around 16,000 speakers.^[2]

Yogad
Native to	Philippines
Region	Luzon
Native speakers	(16,000 cited 1990 census)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Northern Luzon Cagayan Valley Ibanagic Yogad
Language codes
ISO 639-3	yog
Glottolog	yoga1237
Area where the Yogad language is spoken

Classification

Anthropologist H. Otley Beyer describes Yogad as a variant of Gaddang language and the people as a sub-group of the Gaddang people in his 1917 catalogue of Philippines ethnic groups.^[3] Glottolog presently groups it as a member of the Gaddangic group; in 2015, however, Ethnologue placed Yogad as a separate member of the Ibanagic language family. Godfrey Lambrecht, CICM, also distinguished separately the peoples who spoke the two languages.^[4]

Alphabet

The Yogad alphabet has 21 letters composed of 16 consonants and 5 vowels.^[5]

Yogad Alphabet

Majuscule Letter	A	B	K	D	E	F	G
Minuscule Letter	a	b	k	d	e	f	g
IPA	/a/	/b/	/k/	/d/	/ɛ/	/f/	/ɡ/
Majuscule Letter	H	I	L	M	N	NG	O
Minuscule Letter	h	i	l	m	n	ng	o
IPA	/h/	/i/	/l/	/m/	/n/	/ŋ/	/o/
Majuscule Letter	P	R	S	T	U	W	Y
Minuscule Letter	p	r	s	t	u	w	y
IPA	/p/	/ɾ/	/s/	/t/	/u/	/w/	/j/

References

1. Yogad at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. "About Yogad". Yogad Kan.https://www.yogadkan.com/about-yogad.html
3. Beyer, H. Otley (1917). Population of the Philippine Islands in 1916 (población de las islas Filipinas en 1916) (in English and Spanish). Manila: Philippine Education Co., Inc. p. 22.
4. Lambrecht, Godfrey (1959). "The Gadang of Isabela and Nueva Vizcaya: Survivals of a Primitive Animistic Religion". Philippine Studies. 7 (2): 194–218. JSTOR 42719440.
5. Yogad: First Primer. The Summer Institute of Linguistics. 1956.

• Davis, Philip W.; Mesa, Angel D. (2000). A Dictionary of Yogad. Munich, Germany: Lincom Europa.