The Indi language or Mag-indi (or Mag-Indi Ayta) is a Sambalic language with around 5,000 speakers.[2] It is spoken within Philippine Aeta communities in San Marcelino, Zambales, and in the Pampango municipalities of Floridablanca (including in Nabuklod[3]) and Porac. There are also speakers in Lumibao and Maague-ague.[4]
Indi | |
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Ayta, Indi, Indi Ayta, Mag-Indi Sambal | |
Mag-indi | |
Native to | Philippines |
Region | Floridablanca, Porac, San Marcelino |
Ethnicity | 30,000 (no date)[1] |
Native speakers | (5,000 cited 1998)[2] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | blx |
Glottolog | magi1241 |
Phonology
editConsonants
editLabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
Fricative | s | |||||
Lateral | l | |||||
Rhotic | ɾ | |||||
Approximant | w | j |
Vowels
editFront | Central | Back | |
---|---|---|---|
Close | i | ɨ | u |
Open | a |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Indi language at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
- ^ a b Indi at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Stone, Roger (2008). "The Sambalic Languages of Central Luzon" (PDF). Studies in Philippine Languages and Cultures. 19: 158–183. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-05-17. Retrieved 2016-03-30.
- ^ Himes, Ronald S. (2012). "The Central Luzon Group of Languages". Oceanic Linguistics. 51 (2): 490–537. doi:10.1353/ol.2012.0013. JSTOR 23321866. S2CID 143589926.
- ^ Stone, Roger (2017). Introduction to Ayta Mag-Indi Orthography.
Further reading
edit- Paggamit sa Apat a Pagsabi / The Use of Four Languages (PDF). Manila: Summer Institute of Linguistics. 1991. ISBN 971-18-0185-X. – sample phrases in Indi, Kapampangan, Tagalog and English.
External links
editFor a list of words relating to Indi language, see the Mag-Indi Ayta language category of words in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.