Hanunoo
Hanunó'o
ᜱᜨᜳᜨᜳᜢ
Native toPhilippines
RegionMimaropa
Native speakers
13,000 (2000)[1]
Hanunuo
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

Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Plosive voiceless p t k ʔ
voiced b d ɡ
Nasal m n ŋ
Fricative s h
Trill r
Lateral l
Approximant w j

Vowels

Front Central Back
Close i u
Mid (ə)
Open a

Distribution

Hanunoo is spoken in the following locations according to Barbian (1977):[3]

References

  1. ^ Hanunoo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Epo, Yrrah Jane S. (2014). Discourse Analysis of Suyot: A Hanunuo-Mangyan Folk Narrative (MA thesis). Payap University. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.695.4257.
  3. ^ Barbian, Karl-Josef (1977). English-Mangyan Vocabulary. Cebu City: University of San Carlos.

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, 9. Berkeley: University of California Press.

External links

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Austronesian languages
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