Английская Википедия:Bantayanon language
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox languageThe Bantayanon language is the regional language of the Bantayan islands in the Philippines. It is a part of the Bisayan language family and is closely related to Waray and Hiligaynon. There are three dialects of Bantayanon, based in the three municipalities that comprise the island group: Binantayanun (in Bantayan), Linawisanun (in Madridejos), and Sinantapihanun (in Santa Fe), the most idiosyncratic of the three. There are also significant dialectal differences between the speech patterns of those that live in the town centers and those that live outside of the more rural areas of the islands.
History of the Bantayanon language
The first mention of the language spoken on the Bantayan islands seems to be from the Spanish historian and Jesuit missionary Ignacio Alcina, who wrote in 1668,
"Finally, it could have happened that people from various larger or smaller islands passed over to the others, as is an established fact among them. For instance, those on the Island of Bantayan, which is near Cebu, are actually descendants of the people living on Samar Island and on the western side or opposite that of Ibabao. Today, they admit that they are related by blood due to the fact that the latter were populated in more recent times." (translation by editors)[1]
The substratum of Bantayanon is that Old Waray dialect that moved across Bantayan and eventually onto Panay Island, and later Bantayanon was heavily influenced in its lexicon by Cebuano.[2]
Modern scholarship on the Bantayanon language
The only published scholarship on the Bantayanon language is a Master of Arts thesis presented to Mindanao State University - Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT) by Minda Carabio-Sexon,[3] in which she looks at the lexical relationship between Bantayanon and its neighboring languages, presents findings from mutual-intelligibility tests with related languages, and provides a sociolinguistic profile of the island's inhabitants. She also provides transcriptions and English translations of two of her collected interviews.
There is currentlyШаблон:As of? a documentation project of Bantayanon underway by researcher Jarrette K. Allen, a PhD candidate at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA.
Phonology and orthography
Bantayanon has sixteen consonantal phonemes and three vocalic phonemes. The following orthography is the one currently being developed, since Bantayanon is still considered an undocumented/undescribed language with no literary history. It draws on the orthographies of Cebuano, Hiligaynon, and Filipino, but also diverges in some ways.
All final plosives in Bantayanon are unreleased. It has not been demonstrated that Bantayanon aspirates any consonants. There are no syllabic consonants in Bantayanon.
The following phonemes are written as they are in the IPA (above table): p b t d k g m n s h w l.
These phonemes are written as such:
- If a root in Bantayanon does not begin with another consonant, it begins with a glottal stop /ʔ/, but this glottal is only ever indicated in the orthography when that glottal appears word-medially due to affixation or reduplication.
- The glottal stop Шаблон:IPA is written as a hyphen (-) in all word-medial positions. This is atypical of Central Bisayan languages, which assume a glottal between vowels (i.e. aa = Шаблон:IPA). However, it is necessary to write long vowels in Bantayanon, for they are contrastive, and this is done by doubling the vowel (i.e. aa = Шаблон:IPA) and marking all word-medial glottals (a-a = Шаблон:IPA).
- The glottal stop Шаблон:IPA in word-final positions (always over a vowel) is indicated with a grave accent (e.g. Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:IPA).
- The velar nasal Шаблон:IPA is written with ng and can appear word-initially, medially, and finally.
- The tap or flap Шаблон:IPA is written with an r.
- The glides Шаблон:IPA and Шаблон:IPA are written with a w and a y, respectively.
| FRONT | CENTRAL | BACK | |
|---|---|---|---|
| HIGH | Шаблон:IPA link | Шаблон:IPA link | |
| LOW | Шаблон:IPA link |
Like Cebuano, Bantayanon has only three vocalic phonemes. There is no Шаблон:IPA or Шаблон:IPA in Bantayanon, although many use the letters o and e when writing. All syllables in Bantayanon contain one and only one vowel.
References
Шаблон:Visayan languages Шаблон:Philippine languages Шаблон:Austronesian languages Шаблон:Languages of the Philippines
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ Carabio-Sexon, Minda. 2007. “Bantayanon: A Lexical Comparison and Sociolinguistic Description.” Mindanao State University - Iligan Institute of Technology.
