Batanic language of the Ivatan people of the Philippines
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Ivatan
Ibatan
Chirin nu Ibatan
Native to
Philippines
Region
Batanes Islands
Ethnicity
Ivatan
Native speakers
(33,000 cited 1996–2007)[1]
Language family
Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Philippine
Batanic
Ivatan
Dialects
Ivasay
Isamurung
Babuyan
Official status
Official language in
Regional language in the Philippines
Regulated by
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Either: ivv – Ivatan ivb – Ibatan (Babuyan)
Glottolog
ivat1242 Ivatan ibat1238 Ibatan
The location of the Ivatan language within the Batanic languages
The Ivatan language, also known as Chirin nu Ivatan ("language of the Ivatan people"), is an Austronesian language spoken in the Batanes Islands of the Philippines.
Although the islands are closer to Taiwan than to Luzon, it is not one of the Formosan languages. Ivatan is one of the Batanic languages, which are perhaps a primary branch of the Malayo-Polynesian family of Austronesian languages.
The language of Babuyan Island (Ibatan) is sometimes classified as a dialect of the Ivatan language. Most of the Babuyan population moved to Batan Island and to Luzon mainland during the Spanish colonial period. The island became repopulated at the end of the 19th century with families from Batan, most of them speakers of one of the Ivatan dialects.[2]
Ivatan speakers are found outside their homeland, many of them settled in mainland Luzon particularly in nearby Cagayan Valley, Ilocandia, Cordillera Administrative Region, Central Luzon, Metro Manila, Calabarzon, Mindoro and Palawan and also settled as far as Mindanao. In Mindanao, a significant Ivatan-speaking minority exist mainly in Bukidnon, Lanao and Cotabato where they settled since the 1950s in search of economic opportunities settled down in government homesteads in these areas. Nowadays, however, their language has becoming endangered among Ivatan settlers' descendants especially newer generations born in Mindanao, due to being accustomed into a society of Cebuano-speaking majority. Like elsewhere, intermarriage between Ivatans and Mindanaoans of various ethnicities are not uncommon. Most of these Ivatans in Mindanao today speak the majority language of Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Tagalog and other Mindanao indigenous languages more than their ancestors' native language in varying fluency or none at all.[3][4][5][6]
^Ivatan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) Ibatan (Babuyan) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^Ross, Malcolm (2005). "The Batanic Languages in Relation to the Early History of the Malayo-Polynesian Subgroup of Austronesian" (PDF). Journal of Austronesian Studies. 1 (2). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 March 2012. Retrieved 15 October 2012.
^Aringay, Marbeth (2023). "Islandness in the Province: The Language of a Migrated Ivatan". doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.11798.32320. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
^"Ivatan People of the Philippines: History, Customs, Culture and Traditions [Batanes Islands]". yodisphere.com. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
^Hooker, Betty (1972). "Cohesion in Ivatan" (PDF). Asian Studies. 10 (1): 33–43. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
^"Ivatan Language of the Batanes Islands". iloko.tripod.com. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
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