Iraya language
| Iraya | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Philippines |
| Region | MIMAROPA |
Native speakers | (10,000 cited 1991)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
iry |
| Glottolog |
iray1237[2] |
The Iraya language is a language spoken by Mangyans in the province of Mindoro in the Philippines.
Locations
Ethnologue reports that Iraya is spoken in the following municipalities of northern Mindoro island.
- Mindoro Occidental Province: Paluan, Abra de Ilog, northern Mamburao, and Santa Cruz municipalities
- Mindoro Oriental Province: Puerto Galera and San Teodoro municipalities
Barbian (1977)[3] also lists the location of Calamintao, on the northeastern boundary of Santa Cruz municipality (7 km up the Pagbahan River from the provincial highway).
References
- ↑ Iraya at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Iraya". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Barbian, Karl-Josef. 1977. English-Mangyan vocabulary. Cebu City: University of San Carlos.
- Colin E. Tweddell. 1958. The Iraya (Mangyan) Language of Mindoro, Philippines: Phonology and Morphology. University of Washington. Ann Arbor: UMI. (Doctoral dissertation).
- Colin E. Tweddell and Thomas E. Tweddell and Hazel A. Page. 1974. "Iraya Mangyan Phonology and Philippine Orthography." Anthropological Linguistics 16. 368-392.
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