Hanunoo language

Hanunoo
Hanunó'o
ᜱᜨᜳᜨᜳᜢ
Native to	Philippines
Region	Mimaropa
Native speakers	(13,000 cited 2000)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Greater Central Philippine South Mangyan Hanunoo
Writing system	Hanunuo
Language codes
ISO 639-3	hnn
Glottolog	hanu1241
ELP

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

Hanunoo has 16 consonant phonemes.

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	voiceless	p ⟨p⟩	t ⟨t⟩		k ⟨k⟩	ʔ
	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⟩

Vowels

Vowels

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

• /a i/ can be heard as [ə 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.

Diphthongs

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

Distribution

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

• Barrio Tugtugin, San Jose, Occidental Mindoro
• Naluak, Magsaysay, Occidental Mindoro (on the upper Caguray River)
• Bamban, Magsaysay, Occidental Mindoro (also with Ratagnon and Bisayan residents)
• Barrio Panaytayan, Mansalay, Oriental Mindoro (about 5 km (3.1 mi) from the highway in the mountains southwest of Mansalay)

External links

• Hanunuo Archived 2016-10-07 at the Wayback Machine, Mangyan Heritage Center. (About the people.)