Itbayat language
The Itbayat language, Itbayaten, also known generically as Ibatan, is an Austronesian language, in the Batanic group, spoken in the Batanes Islands.
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Native to | Philippines |
Region | Itbayat Island |
Ethnicity | Ivatan people Yami people Filipinos in Taiwan |
Native speakers | 3,500 (1996 census)[1] |
Austronesian
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | tao |
Glottolog | itba1237 [2] |
References
- Ivatan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Itbayaten". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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