Hanunoo language
Appearance
Hanunoo | |
---|---|
Hanunó'o | |
ᜱᜨᜳᜨᜳᜢ | |
Native to | Philippines |
Region | Mimaropa |
Native speakers | 13,000 (2000)[1] |
Hanunuo | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | hnn |
Glottolog | hanu1241 |
Hanunoo, or Hanunó'o (IPA: [hanunuʔɔ]), is a language spoken by Mangyans in the island of Mindoro, Philippines.
It is written in the Hanunoo script.
Phonology
[edit]Consonants
[edit]Hanunoo has 16 consonant phonemes.
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Plosive | voiceless | p ⟨p⟩ | t ⟨t⟩ | k ⟨k⟩ | ʔ[a] | |
voiced | b ⟨b⟩ | d ⟨d⟩ | ɡ ⟨g⟩ | |||
Nasal | m ⟨m⟩ | n ⟨n⟩ | ŋ ⟨ng⟩ | |||
Fricative | s ⟨s⟩ | h ⟨h⟩ | ||||
Trill | r ⟨r⟩ | |||||
Lateral | l ⟨l⟩ | |||||
Approximant | w ⟨w⟩ | j ⟨y⟩ |
- ^ Hanunoo does not write glottal stops.
Vowels
[edit]Front | Central | Back | |
---|---|---|---|
Close | i ⟨i⟩ | u ⟨u⟩ | |
Mid | (ə) | ||
Open | a ⟨a⟩ |
- /a i/ can be heard as [ə ɪ] within closed syllables.
- /u/ can be heard as [o] within word-final syllables.
- /i/ can be heard as an open-mid [ɛ] among some speakers in certain words.[3]
Diphthongs
[edit]Hanunoo also has four diphthongs: /ai̯/, /au̯/, /iu̯/, and /ui̯/.[4]
Distribution
[edit]Hanunoo is spoken in the following locations according to Barbian (1977):[5]
- Barrio Tugtugin, San Jose, Occidental Mindoro
- Naluak, Magsaysay, Occidental Mindoro (on the upper Caguray River)
- Bamban, Magsaysay, Occidental Mindoro (also with Ratagnon and Bisayan residents)
- Barrio Panaytayan, Mansalay, Oriental Mindoro (about 5 km (3.1 mi) from the highway in the mountains southwest of Mansalay)
References
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Epo, Yrrah Jane S. (2014). Discourse Analysis of Suyot: A Hanunuo-Mangyan Folk Narrative (MA thesis). Payap University. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.695.4257.
Further reading
[edit]External links
[edit]- Hanunuo Archived 2016-10-07 at the Wayback Machine, Mangyan Heritage Center. (About the people.)