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Hanunoo language

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Hanunoo
Hanunó'o
ᜱᜨᜳᜨᜳᜢ
Pronunciation[hanunuʔɔ]
Native toPhilippines
RegionMimaropa
Native speakers
(13,000 cited 2000)[1]
Hanunuo
Language codes
ISO 639-3hnn
Glottologhanu1241

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.

Geographic distribution

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Hanunoo is spoken in the following locations according to Barbian (1977):[2]

Phonology

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Consonants

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Hanunoo has 16 consonant phonemes.

Consonants[3]
Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Plosive voiceless p p t t k k ʔ[a]
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

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Vowels[3]
Front Central Back
Close i i u u
Mid (ə)
Open a a
  • /a i/ can be heard as ɪ] within closed syllables.
  • /u/ can be heard as [o] within word-final syllables.
  • /i/ can be heard as an open-mid [ɛ] among some speakers in certain words.[4]

Diphthongs

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Hanunoo also has four diphthongs: /ai̯/, /au̯/, /iu̯/, and /ui̯/.[5]

References

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  1. Hanunoo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Barbian, Karl-Josef (1977). English-Mangyan Vocabulary. Cebu City: University of San Carlos.
  3. 1 2 Epo 2014, pp. 5, 9.
  4. Epo 2014, pp. 6–7.
  5. Epo 2014, p. 7.

Bibliography

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Further reading

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  • 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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