The Itbayat language or Itbayaten (also known generically as
Ibatan) is an
Austronesian
Austronesian may refer to:
*The Austronesian languages
*The historical Austronesian peoples
The Austronesian peoples, sometimes referred to as Austronesian-speaking peoples, are a large group of peoples in Taiwan, Maritime Southeast Asia, M ...
language, in the
Batanic group, spoken in the
Batanes
Batanes, officially the Province of Batanes ( ivv, Provinsiya nu Batanes; Ilocano: ''Probinsia ti Batanes''; fil, Lalawigan ng Batanes, ), is an archipelagic province in the Philippines, administratively part of the Cagayan Valley region. It i ...
Islands,
Philippines.
Phonology
Vowels
Vowels are contrasted between long and short vowels, for example as seen in the words ('support') and ('a kind of yam').
Consonants
* /f/ is only used in loanwords but tends to become /p/.
Grammar
Pronouns
The following set of pronouns is found in the Itbayat language.
References
Further reading
*
Batanic languages
Languages of Batanes
{{philippine-lang-stub