Hanunoo language

Hanunoo
Hanunoo
Hanunó'o
ᜱᜨᜳᜨᜳᜢ
Pronunciation	[hanunuʔɔ]
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

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

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

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)

Hanunoo has 16 consonant phonemes.

Consonants³
		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	voiceless	p ⟨p⟩	t ⟨t⟩		k ⟨k⟩	ʔ^a
Plosive	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⟩

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

References

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

Bibliography

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