Balangao language

Balangao
Balangaw, Balangao Bontoc
Native to	Philippines
Region	Luzon
Ethnicity	Balangao people
Native speakers	(21,000 cited 2000)[1]
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 Austronesian language^[2] spoken in northern Luzon, Philippines. It is spoken in the central area of Mountain Province, and into Tanudan municipality of Kalinga Province.

Phonology

Balangao has the following phoneme inventory:^[3]

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i	ɨ	u
Mid	e		o
Open		a

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
	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.

References

1. Balangao at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Balangao". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
3. Shetler, Joanne (1976). Notes on Balangao grammar. Language Data: Asian-Pacific Series No. 9. Huntington Beach: Summer Institute of Linguistics.