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

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language grouping
Philippine language grouping
language continuum
associatedWith Batanes Province
linked to: Province of Batanes

Ivatan culture
linked to: Ivatan people
closelyRelatedTo Ibatan language
Itbayat language
Yami language
country Philippines
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Ivatan people
geneticRelation Batanic languages
geographicSubregion Babuyan Islands
Batan Island
Itbayat Island
Sabtang Island
hasAlternativeName Batanic Ivatan
linked to: Ivasayen Ivatan

Ivatanic languages
hasDialect Babuyan Ivatan
Basco Ivatan
linked to: Ivasayen Ivatan

Itbayaten
Northern Ivatan
Southern Ivatan
hasFeature Austronesian alignment
focus system
phonemic glottal stop
rich verbal morphology
vowel length distinctions
hasGlottocode ivat1242
hasISO6393Code ivv
hasSubLanguage Ibatan language
Itbayat language
Ivatan language
languageFamily Austronesian languages
region Northern Luzon island group
spokenBy Ivatan people
spokenIn Batanes Islands
Philippines
status minority language in the Philippines
subfamily Malayo-Polynesian languages
Philippine languages
typology agglutinative language
verb–initial language
usedAlongside English language
Filipino language
linked to: Tagalog
usedFor daily communication in Batanes
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ivasayen Ivatan partOf Ivatan language continuum