Mariveleño language

Mariveleño (also known as Magbikin, Bataan Ayta, or Magbukun Ayta) is a Sambalic language. It has around 500 speakers (Wurm 2000) and is spoken within an Aeta community in Mariveles in the Philippines.

Mariveleño
Bataan Ayta, Magbukun Ayta
Native to	Philippines
Region	Mariveles
Ethnicity	2,000 (2011)
Native speakers	1,000 (2011)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Central Luzon Sambalic Mariveleño
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ayt
Glottolog	bata1297
ELP	Bataan Ayta

Geographic distribution

Reid (1994) reports the following Magbikin locations.

• Kanáwon, Morong, Bataan
• Bayanbayanan, Magbikin, Mariveles, Bataan

Himes (2012: 491) also collected Magbukun data from the two locations of:

• Biaan, Mariveles, Bataan
• Canawan, Morong, Bataan

Cabanding (2014), citing Neil (2012), reports the following Magbukon locations in Bataan Province.

• Dangcol, Balanga, Bataan
• Kinaragan, Limay, Bataan
• Kanawan, Morong, Bataan
• Pita, Bayan-bayanan in Orion, Bataan
• Pag-asa, Orani, Bataan
• Ulingan, Matanglaw, and Magduhat (all in Bagac, Bataan)
• Sitio Luoban in Samal, Bataan
• Bangkal in Abucay, Bataan

See also

• Languages of the Philippines

References

• Cabanding, Monica. 2014. The Deictic Demonstratives of Ayta Magbukun. The Philippines ESL Journal, vol. 13. ISSN 1718-2298
• Neil, David R. 2012. An ethnographic study of the Magbukon literary arts among the Ayta of Bataan. Abucay, Bataan: Bataan Peninsula State University.
• Neil, David R. 2014. The Magbukon Literary Arts among the Aetas of Bataan, Philippines. IAMURE International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, Vol. 11 No. 1 October 2014. ISSN 2244-0429 (Online)

Further reading

• Blust, Robert (2013). "Terror from the Sky: Unconventional Linguistic Clues to the Negrito Past". Human Biology. 85 (1–3): 401–416. doi:10.13110/humanbiology.85.1-3.0401. PMID 24297235.
• Brosius, J. Peter (1983). "The Zambales Negritos: Swidden agriculture and environmental change". Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society. 11 (2/3): 123–148. JSTOR 29791791.
• Chrétien, Douglas C. (1951). The dialect of the Sierra de Mariveles Negritos. (University of California Publications in Linguistics, 4.2.) Berkeley/Los Angeles: Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 109pp.
• Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Bataan Ayta". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
• 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.
• Reed, W. A. 1904. Negritos of Zambales. (Ethnological Survey Publications, 2(1).) Manila: Bureau of Public Printing. 100pp.
• Reid, Lawrence A. (1994). "Possible Non-Austronesian Lexical Elements in Philippine Negrito Languages". Oceanic Linguistics. 33 (1): 37–72. doi:10.2307/3623000. hdl:10125/32986. JSTOR 3623000.
• Lawrence a. Reid (2013). "Who Are the Philippine Negritos? Evidence from Language". Human Biology. 85 (1–3): 329–358. doi:10.13110/humanbiology.85.1-3.0329. PMID 24297232.
• Sabino g. Padilla, Jr. (2013). "Anthropology and GIS: Temporal and Spatial Distribution of the Philippine Negrito Groups". Human Biology. 85 (1–3): 209. doi:10.13110/humanbiology.85.1-3.0209. PMID 24297227.
• Schadenberg, A. (1880). Ueber die Negritos in den Philippinen. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie XII. 133-172.
• Wimbish, John. (1986). The languages of the Zambales mountains: A Philippine lexicostatistic study. In University of North Dakota Session, 133-142. Grand Forks, North Dakota: Summer Institute of Linguistics.