Hanunoo language
Hanunoo, or Hanunó'o (IPA: [hanunuʔɔ]), is a language spoken by Mangyans in the island of Mindoro, Philippines.
| Hanunoo | |
|---|---|
| Hanunó'o | |
| ᜱᜨᜳᜨᜳᜢ | |
| Native to | Philippines |
| Region | Mimaropa |
Native speakers | 13,000 (2000)[1] |
| Hanunuo | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | hnn |
| Glottolog | hanu1241 |
It is written in the Hanunoo script.
Phonology
Distribution
Hanunoo is spoken in the following locations according to Barbian (1977):[3]
- 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)
References
- Hanunoo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- Epo, Yrrah Jane S. (2014). Discourse Analysis of Suyot: A Hanunuo-Mangyan Folk Narrative (MA thesis). Payap University. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.695.4257.
- Barbian, Karl-Josef (1977). English-Mangyan Vocabulary. Cebu City: University of San Carlos.
Further reading
- 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, 9. Berkeley: University of California Press.
External links
- Hanunuo Archived 2016-10-07 at the Wayback Machine, Mangyan Heritage Center. (About the people.)
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