Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines
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
Consonants
Hanunoo has 16 consonant phonemes.
^ Hanunoo does not write glottal stops.
Vowels
/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.
Diphthongs
Hanunoo also has four diphthongs: /ai̯ / , /au̯ / , /iu̯ / , and /ui̯ / .
Distribution
Hanunoo is spoken in the following locations according to Barbian (1977):[5]
References
^ Hanunoo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Barbian, Karl-Josef (1977). English-Mangyan Vocabulary . Cebu City: University of San Carlos.
Bibliography
Further reading
Conklin, Harold (1949). A Brief Description of Hanunoo Morphology and Syntax . Berkeley: University of California Press.
Conklin, Harold C. (1953). Hanunóo-English Vocabulary . University of California Publications in Linguistics. Vol. 9. Berkeley: University of California Press. OCLC 3912044 .
External links
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