Palawan Batak language

Batak
	Palawan Batak
Native to	Philippines
Region	Palawan
Ethnicity	2,040 (1990 census)[1]
Native speakers	200 (2000)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Greater Central Philippine Palawanic Batak; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Tagbanwa alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bya
Glottolog	bata1301[2]

Batak is a Negrito language spoken on Palawan Island in the Philippines. It is sometimes disambiguated from the Batak languages as Palawan Batak.

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
Plosive	voiced	b	d		ɡ
Nasal		m	n		ŋ
Fricative			s
Lateral			l
Rhotic			ɾ~r
Approximant		w		j

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i	ɨ	u
Open		a

[3]

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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[e18-1] Batak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Batak". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[3] Reid, Lawrence A. (1971). Philippine Minor Languages: Word Lists and Phonologies. University of Hawai'i Press. p. 4.