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(Redirected from Hanunuo language) Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines
Hanunoo
Hanunó'o
ᜱᜨᜳᜨᜳᜢ
Native toPhilippines
RegionMimaropa
Native speakers(13,000 cited 2000)
Language familyAustronesian
Writing systemHanunuo
Language codes
ISO 639-3hnn
Glottologhanu1241
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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.

Consonants
Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Plosive voiceless p ⟨p⟩ t ⟨t⟩ k ⟨k⟩ ʔ
voiced b ⟨b⟩ d ⟨d⟩ ɡ ⟨g⟩
Nasal m ⟨m⟩ n ⟨n⟩ ŋ ⟨ng⟩
Fricative s ⟨s⟩ h ⟨h⟩
Trill r ⟨r⟩
Lateral l ⟨l⟩
Approximant w ⟨w⟩ j ⟨y⟩
  1. Hanunoo does not write glottal stops.

Vowels

Vowels
Front Central Back
Close i ⟨i⟩ u ⟨u⟩
Mid (ə)
Open a ⟨a⟩
  • /a i/ can be heard as within closed syllables.
  • /u/ can be heard as within word-final syllables.
  • /i/ can be heard as an open-mid 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):

References

  1. Hanunoo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Epo 2014, pp. 5, 9.
  3. Epo 2014, pp. 6–7.
  4. Epo 2014, p. 7.
  5. 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.

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