Butuanon language
Austronesian language spoken by Butuanon people in northeastern Mindanao
Butuanon | |
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Native to | Philippines |
Ethnicity | Butuanons |
Native speakers | 72,000 (2005 [needs update])[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | btw |
Glottolog | butu1244 |
Butuanon is an Austronesian regional language spoken by the Butuanon people in Agusan del Norte and Agusan del Sur, with some native speakers in Misamis Oriental and Surigao del Norte. It is a part of the Bisayan language family and is closely related to other Philippine languages. As of 2007, Butuanon is believed to be spoken by fewer than 500 youngsters in Butuan itself.[2]
Butuanon is very closely related to the Tausug language of distant Sulu and the Surigaonon language of neighboring provinces Surigao del Sur and Surigao del Norte.
Orthography
[edit]- a – [a]
- b – [b]
- d – [d]
- g – [g]
- h – [h]
- i – [i]
- k – [k]
- l – [l]
- m – [m]
- n – [n]
- ng – [ŋ]
- ny – [ɲ]
- o – [o]
- p – [p]
- r – [r]
- s – [s]
- t – [t]
- u – [u]
- w – [w]
- y – [j]
Long vowels are written as double letters (e.g. aa, ii, etc.)[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Butuanon at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Cabuang, Fred S. (September 6, 2007). "Saving Butuanon Language". The Manila Times. Archived from the original on 2007-10-15. Retrieved 2010-03-14.
- ^ "Butuanon Language, Alphabet and Pronunciation". omniglot.com.
Further reading
[edit]- Kobari, Yoshihiro (2009). The Current Status of the Butuanon Language and Its Speakers in Northern Mindanao: Findings on Ethnic Identity, Language Attitudes, Language Ability, Language Use, and Language Change (Ph.D. thesis). De La Salle University.
- Kobari, Yoshihiro (2016). "The Game of Naming: A Case of the Butuanon Language and its Speakers in the Philippines" (PDF). Language and Linguistics in Oceania. 8: 1–21.
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