Palawan Batak language
Batak is a Negrito language spoken on Palawan Island in the Philippines. It is sometimes disambiguated from the Batak languages as Palawan Batak.
| Batak | |
|---|---|
| Palawan Batak | |
| Native to | Philippines |
| Region | Palawan |
| Ethnicity | 2,040 (1990 census)[1] |
Native speakers | 200 (2000)[1] |
Austronesian
| |
| Tagbanwa alphabet | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bya |
| Glottolog | bata1301[2] |
Batak is spoken in the communities of Babuyan, Maoyon, Tanabag, Langogan, Tagnipa, Caramay, and Buayan (Lobel 2013:87). Surrounding languages including Southern Tagbanwa, Central Tagbanwa, Kuyonon, and Agutaynen.
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
| Fricative | s | |||||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Rhotic | ɾ~r | |||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||
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References
- Batak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Batak". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Reid, Lawrence A. (1971). Philippine Minor Languages: Word Lists and Phonologies. University of Hawai'i Press. p. 4.
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