Language name and locationː Ivatan, Batanes islands, Philippines [Ref to Ethnologue]

言名称和分布地区伊巴丹语 (伊特巴雅坦语 Itbayaten), 菲律宾北部巴丹群岛

 

1. aʔsa

21. aʔsast͡ʃatlo /dahaːpoxo poho kano aʔsa

2. doha / dadoha

22. dohast͡ʃatlo /dahaːpoxo poho kano doha

3. atlo / hatlo ~tatlo

23. atlwast͡ʃatlo /dahaːpoxo poho kano atlo

4. aʔpat / haʔpat

24. aʔpatast͡ʃatlo

5. lima / lalima

25. limast͡ʃatlo

6. aʔnəm / haʔnəm

26. aʔnəmast͡ʃatlo

7. pito / papito

27. pitwast͡ʃatlo

8. waxo / wawaxo

28. waxwast͡ʃatlo

9. siyam / sasiyam

29. siyamast͡ʃatlo

10. saːpoho / saʔsaːpoxo

30. atlwapoxo

11. aʔsast͡ʃarwa 

40. aʔpatapoxo

12. dohast͡ʃarwa

50. limaːpoxo

13. atlwast͡ʃarwa

60. aʔnəmapoxo

14. aʔpatast͡ʃarwa

70. pitwapoxo

15. limast͡ʃarwa

80. waxwapoxo

16. aʔnəmast͡ʃarwa

90.  siyampoxo

17. pitwast͡ʃarwa

100. omyatos / saʔa yatos / sinto (< Sp.)

18. waxwast͡ʃarwa

200. dohaːyatos / dosintos (< Spanish)

19. (sa)siyamast͡ʃarwa

1000. omrivo / həmrivo / miːl (<Sp.)

20. dahaːpoxo poho

2000. doharivo / dosi miːl

 

Linguist providing data and dateː Prof. Yukihiro Yamada, Himeji Dokkyo University, Hyogo County, Japan, March 18, 2006.

供资料的语言学家: 山田幸宏教授 (日本兵库县路獨協大), 2006 年 3 月 18 日.

 

Other comments: Ivatan or Itbayaten has a decimal system. There are two forms of cardinal numbers from 2 to 10 in Itbayaten. The first one is used in series counting and counting things, the second for counting human beings. The Itbayaten used a particular way to express compound numbers 11 to 19, 21 to 29 ..., which means 'one at the 2nd stage or step'. Nowadays, the numbers after ten have been replaced by Spanish numbers.

The Ivatan (Ibatan) language, also known as Chirin nu Ibatan ("language of the Ivatan people"), is a Philippine language of Austronesian origins spoken in the Batanes Islands of the Philippines by approximately 33,000 speakers. 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 is sometimes classified as a dialect. Most of the Babuyan population moved to Batan Island and the 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.


 

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