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Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Itbayat language or Itbayaten (also known generically as Ibatan) is an Austronesian language, in the Batanic group, spoken on Itbayat Island in the Batanes Islands, Philippines.
Itbayat | |
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Ibatan | |
Itbayaten | |
Native to | Philippines |
Region | Itbayat Island |
Ethnicity | Ivatan people Yami people |
Native speakers | (3,500 cited 1996 census)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | itba1237 |
Itbayat and the other Batanic languages |
/a, ɜ, i, o/
Vowels are contrasted between long and short vowels, for example as seen in the words tokod ('support') and tookod ('a kind of yam').[2]
The following set of pronouns is found in the Itbayat language.[2]
Nominative | Genitive | Locative | |||||
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free | bound | free | bound | ||||
1st person |
singular | yaken | ako | ñaken | ko | jaken | |
dual | – | ta | – | – | – | ||
plural | inclusive | yaten | ta | ñaten | ta | jaten | |
exclusive | yamen | kami | ñamen | namen | jamen | ||
2nd person |
singular | imo | ka | nimo | mo | dimo | |
plural | imiyo | kamo | nimiyo | miyo | dimiyo | ||
3rd person |
singular | – | – | niya/ña | na | dira | |
plural | sira | sira | nira | da | dira |
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