Hanunoo | |
Also Known As: | Hanunó'o |
States: | Philippines |
Region: | Mimaropa |
Speakers: | 13,000 |
Date: | 2000 |
Ref: | e18 |
Familycolor: | Austronesian |
Fam2: | Malayo-Polynesian |
Fam3: | Philippine |
Fam4: | Greater Central Philippine |
Fam5: | South Mangyan |
Script: | Hanunuo |
Iso3: | hnn |
Glotto: | hanu1241 |
Glottorefname: | Hanunoo |
Hanunoo, or Hanunó'o (pronounced as /tl/), is a language spoken by Mangyans in the island of Mindoro, Philippines.
It is written in the Hanunoo script.
Hanunoo has 16 consonant phonemes.
Plosive | voiceless | pronounced as /link/ (p) | pronounced as /link/ (t) | pronounced as /link/ (k) | pronounced as /link/ | ||
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voiced | pronounced as /link/ (b) | pronounced as /link/ (d) | pronounced as /link/ (g) | ||||
Nasal | pronounced as /link/ (m) | pronounced as /link/ (n) | pronounced as /link/ (ng) | ||||
Fricative | pronounced as /link/ (s) | pronounced as /link/ (h) | |||||
Trill | pronounced as /link/ (r) | ||||||
Lateral | pronounced as /link/ (l) | ||||||
Approximant | pronounced as /link/ (w) | pronounced as /link/ (y) |
Close | pronounced as /link/ (i) | pronounced as /link/ (u) | ||
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Mid | (pronounced as /link/) | |||
Open | pronounced as /link/ (a) |
Hanunoo also has four diphthongs: pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/, and pronounced as /link/.
Hanunoo is spoken in the following locations according to Barbian (1977):[1]