Balangao language

Balangao
Balangao
Balangaw, Balangao Bontoc
Native to	Philippines
Region	Luzon
Ethnicity	Balangao people
Native speakers	21,000 (2000)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Northern Luzon Meso-Cordilleran Central Cordilleran Nuclear Cordilleran Balangao; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	blw
Glottolog	bala1310
	Area where Balangao is spoken according to Ethnologue

Balangao or Balangaw (also called Balangao Bontoc) is an

Kalinga Province

.

Phonology

Balangao has the following phoneme inventory:^[2]

The central vowels /a/ and /ɨ/ each have a lowered and a raised allophone, viz. [a]~[ə] for /a/, and [ə]~[ɨ] for /ɨ/.

Consonants
		Bilabial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n		ŋ
Plosive	voiceless	p	t		k	ʔ
Plosive	voiced	b	d		ɡ
Fricative			s			h
Approximant			l	j	w

The voiced stops /b/, /d/ and /g/ have voiceless allophones [f], [t͡ʃ], [kʰ] in syllable position.

^ Balangao at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Shetler, Joanne (1976). Notes on Balangao grammar. Language Data: Asian-Pacific Series No. 9. Huntington Beach: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

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