Ivatan language continuum

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The Ivatan language continuum is a group of closely related Austronesian languages and dialects spoken by the Ivatan people of the Batanes Islands in the northern Philippines.

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Label Occurrences
Ivatan language continuum canonical 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language grouping
Philippine language grouping
language continuum
associatedWith Batanes Province NERFINISHED
Ivatan culture NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Ibatan language NERFINISHED
Itbayat language NERFINISHED
Yami language NERFINISHED
country Philippines
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Ivatan people NERFINISHED
geneticRelation Batanic languages
geographicSubregion Babuyan Islands NERFINISHED
Batan Island NERFINISHED
Itbayat Island NERFINISHED
Sabtang Island NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Batanic Ivatan NERFINISHED
Ivatanic languages
hasDialect Babuyan Ivatan NERFINISHED
Basco Ivatan NERFINISHED
Itbayaten NERFINISHED
Northern Ivatan NERFINISHED
Southern Ivatan NERFINISHED
hasFeature Austronesian alignment
focus system
phonemic glottal stop
rich verbal morphology
vowel length distinctions
hasGlottocode ivat1242
hasISO6393Code ivv
hasSubLanguage Ibatan language NERFINISHED
Itbayat language NERFINISHED
Ivatan language NERFINISHED
languageFamily Austronesian languages
region Northern Luzon island group NERFINISHED
spokenBy Ivatan people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Batanes Islands NERFINISHED
Philippines
status minority language in the Philippines
subfamily Malayo-Polynesian languages
Philippine languages NERFINISHED
typology agglutinative language
verb–initial language
usedAlongside English language
Filipino language NERFINISHED
usedFor daily communication in Batanes
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Ivasayen Ivatan partOf Ivatan language continuum