Itbayat language

The Itbayat language, Itbayaten, also known generically as Ibatan, is an Austronesian language, in the Batanic group, spoken in the Batanes Islands.

Itbayat
Ibatan
Itbayaten
Native toPhilippines
RegionItbayat Island
EthnicityIvatan people
Yami people
Native speakers
(3,500 cited 1996 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3tao
Glottologitba1237
Itbayat and the other Batanic languages

Phonology

Vowels

/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]

Consonants
Itbayat consonants
Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Uvular Glottal
Nasal m n ɲ ŋ
Plosive/
Affricate		 voiceless p t t͡ʃ k ʔ
voiced b d d͡ʒ ɡ
Fricative voiceless (f) s ʁ h
voiced v ɣ
Approximant l j w
Trill r
  • /f/ is only used in loanwords but tends to become /p/.[2]

Grammar

Pronouns

The following set of pronouns are the pronouns found in the Itbayat language.[2]

Itbayat pronouns
  Nominative free Nominative bound Genitive free Genitive bound Locative
1st person singular yaken ako ñaken ko jaken
2nd person singular imo ka nimo mo dimo
3rd person singular – – niya / ña na dira
1st person dual – ta – – –
1st person plural inclusive yaten ta ñaten ta jaten
1st person plural exclusive yamen kami ñamen namen jamen
2nd person plural imiyo kamo nimiyo miyo dimiyo
3rd person plural sira sira nira da dira

References
  1. Ivatan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Yamada, Yukihiro (2002), Itbayat–English Dictionary (PDF), ELPR Publications Series A3-006, hdl:10108/75457

Further reading
  • Yamada, Yukihiro (2014). A Grammar of the Itbayat Language of the Philippines. Himeji, Japan.


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