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Central Bontok (or Kali) is a language of the Bontoc group from the Philippines. The 2007 census claimed there were 19,600 speakers.[1]
| Central Bontok | |
|---|---|
| Central Bontoc | |
| Bontoc, Bontoc Igorot, Kali | |
| Native to | Philippines |
| Region | Cordillera Administrative Region |
Native speakers | 20,000 (2007 census)[1] |
Malayo-Polynesian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | lbk |
| Glottolog | cent2292 |
Ethnologue reports the following locations for Central Bontok:
Cordillera Administrative Region: Mountain Province: Bontoc municipality, Bontoc ili, Caluttit, Dalican, Guina-ang, Ma-init, Maligcong, Samoki, and Tocucan villages.
Ethnologue reports 5 dialects for Central Bontok: Khinina-ang, Finontok, Sinamoki, Jinallik, Minaligkhong and Tinokukan.[1]
Ethnologue reports that the language is similar to other Bontoc languages, These languages are: North Bontok, Southwest Bontok, South Bontok, and East Bontok.
Consonants
The Guinaang dialect of Central Bontok has the following inventory of consonant phonemes:[2]
Originally (as documented in the mid 20th century), the sounds pairs [b ~ f], [d ~ ts], [g ~ kʰ], [l ~ ɾ] were in complementary distribution and thus allophones of the phonemes /b/, /d/, /g/, and /l/, respectively (e.g. [ˈtsaɾa] for /ˈdala/ "blood"). With the introduction of loanwords from English, Ilokano and Tagalog, these contrasts have become phonemicized. The phoneme /h/ was also introduced in modern loanwords.
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