Batak is an Austronesian language spoken by the Batak people on Palawan Island in the Philippines. It is sometimes disambiguated from the Batak languages as Palawan Batak.
| Batak | |
|---|---|
| Palawan Batak | |
| Native to | Philippines |
| Region | Palawan |
| Ethnicity | 2,040 (1990 census)[1] |
Native speakers | 200 (2000)[1] |
| Tagbanwa script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bya |
| Glottolog | bata1301 |
| ELP | Batak |
Batak is spoken in the communities of Babuyan, Maoyon, Tanabag, Langogan, Tagnipa, Caramay, and Buayan. Surrounding languages include Southern Tagbanwa, Central Tagbanwa, Kuyonon, and Agutaynen.[2]
Phonology
edit| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
| Fricative | s | |||||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Rhotic | ɾ~r | |||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ɨ | u |
| Open | a |
Pronouns
edit| nominative | genitive | oblique | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| enclitic | preposed | |||
| 1.sg. | aku | ku | akɨn | kanakɨn |
| 2.sg. | ikaw/ka | mu | imu | kanimu |
| 3.sg. | kanya | ya | kanya | kanya |
| 1.pl.dual | kita/ta | ta | atɨn | kanatɨn |
| 1.pl.incl. | tami | tami | atɨn | kanatɨn |
| 1.pl.excl. | kami | men | amɨn | kanamɨn |
| 2.pl. | kamu | mi | imyu | kanimyu |
| 3.pl. | sira | sira | sira | kanira |
References
edit- ^ a b Batak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Lobel, Jason (2013). Philippine and North Bornean Languages: Issues in Description, Subgrouping, and Reconstruction (PDF) (PhD thesis). University of Hawaiʻi. p. 87.
- ^ a b Reid, Lawrence A. (1971). Philippine Minor Languages: Word Lists and Phonologies. Oceanic Linguistics Special Publications. University of Hawai'i Press. p. 4. ISBN 087022-691-6. JSTOR 20019132. LCCN 70-150659.
- ^ Morey, Virginia (1961). "Some particles and pronouns in Batak". Philippine Journal of Science. 90: 263–270.
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