THC Science

Hanunoo
Hanunoo
Hanunó'o
ᜱᜨᜳᜨᜳᜢ
Native to	Philippines
Region	Mimaropa
Native speakers	13,000 (2000)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Greater Central Philippine South Mangyan Hanunoo; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Hanunuo
Language codes
ISO 639-3	hnn
Glottolog	hanu1241

This article contains Hanunoo text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Hanunoo script.

Hanunoo, or Hanunó'o (IPA: [hanunuʔɔ]), is a language spoken by Mangyans in the island of Mindoro, Philippines.

It is written in the Hanunoo script.

Phonology

Hanunoo has 16 consonant phonemes.

Consonants^[2]
		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	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⟩

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

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

Barrio Tugtugin, San Jose, 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)

^ Hanunoo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ ^a ^b Epo 2014, pp. 5, 9.
^ Epo 2014, pp. 6–7.
^ Epo 2014, p. 7.
^ Barbian, Karl-Josef (1977). English-Mangyan Vocabulary. Cebu City: University of San Carlos.

Hanunuo Archived 2016-10-07 at the Wayback Machine, Mangyan Heritage Center. (About the people.)