Hanunoo

language

Hanunoo, or Hanunó'o (IPA: [hanunuʔɔ]), is a language spoken by

Mangyans in the island of Mindoro, Philippines.

Hanunoo
Hanunó'o

ᜱᜨᜳ ᜨᜳᜢ
Native to Philippines

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 Region Mimaropa

13,000 (2000) [1]

Native speakers
Language Austronesian
family Malayo-
Polynesian
Philippine
Greater
Central
Philippine
South
Mangyan
Hanunoo
Writing system Hanunuo

Language codes

ISO 639-3 hnn

Glottolog hanu1241 (h
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text. Without proper rendering
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instead of Hanunoo script.
It is written in the Hanunoo script.

Phonology

Consonants
Hanunoo has 16 consonant phonemes.

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Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal

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⟩

a. Hanunoo does not write glottal

stops.

Vowels
Vowels[2]

Front Central Back

Close i ⟨i⟩ u ⟨u⟩

Mid (ǝ)

Open a ⟨a⟩

/a i/ can be heard as [ǝ ɪ] within

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/u/ can be heard as [o] within
word-final syllables.
/i/ can be heard as an open-mid
[ɛ] among some speakers in
certain words.[3]

Diphthongs
Hanunoo also has four diphthongs: /ai̯ /, /au̯ /, /iu̯ /, and /ui̯ /.[4]

Distribution
Hanunoo is spoken in the following locations according to Barbian
(1977):[5]

Barrio Tugtugin, San Jose,

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 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)

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 References

1. Hanunoo (https://www.ethnolog
ue.com/18/language/hnn/) at
Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
(subscription required)

2. Epo 2014, pp. 5, 9.

3. Epo 2014, pp. 6–7.
4. Epo 2014, p. 7.
5. Barbian, Karl-Josef (1977).
English-Mangyan Vocabulary.
Cebu City: University of San
Carlos.

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 Bibliography

Epo, Yrrah Jane S. (2014).

Discourse Analysis of Suyot: A
Hanunuo-Mangyan Folk
Narrative (https://drive.google.c
om/file/d/1wHXhElXEnvnipXyIhr
NrfZMVJvdxavzv/view) (MA
thesis). Payap University.
CiteSeerX 10.1.1.695.4257 (http
s://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdo
c/summary?doi=10.1.1.695.425
7) .

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 Further reading

Conklin, Harold (1949). A Brief

Description of Hanunoo
Morphology and Syntax. Berkeley:
University of California Press.
Conklin, Harold C. (1953).
Hanunóo-English Vocabulary.
University of California Publications
in Linguistics. Vol. 9. Berkeley:
University of California Press.
OCLC 3912044 (https://www.world
cat.org/oclc/3912044) .

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 External links

Hanunuo (http://www.mangyan.
org/content/hanunuo) Archived
(https://web.archive.org/web/20
161007095429/http://www.ma
ngyan.org/content/hanunuo)
2016-10-07 at the Wayback
Machine, Mangyan Heritage
Center. (About the people.)

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