| Bolinao | |
|---|---|
| Bino-Bolinao, Binubolinao, Binubulinao, Boliano, Bolinao Sambal, Bolinao Zambal, Bulinaw, Sambal Bolinao | |
| Binu-Bolinao | |
| Native to | Philippines |
| Region | Bolinao andAnda,Pangasinan |
| Ethnicity | Bolinao people |
Native speakers | 51,000 (2007 census)[1] |
| Latin (Filipino alphabet) HistoricallyBaybayin | |
| Official status | |
| Regulated by | Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | smk |
| Glottolog | boli1256 |
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TheBolinao language orBinubolinao is aCentral Luzon language spoken primarily in the municipalities ofBolinao andAnda,Pangasinan in thePhilippines. It has approximately 50,000 speakers,[2] making it the second most widely spokenSambalic language. Most Bolinao speakers can speakPangasinan and/orIlocano.Ethnologue reports 510monolinguals for this language.[3]
Bolinao has 21phonemes: 16consonants and fivevowels. Syllable structure is relatively simple. Each syllable contains at least a consonant and a vowel.
Bolinao has five vowels. They are:
There are six maindiphthongs:/aɪ/,/əɪ/,/oɪ/,/uɪ/,/aʊ/, and/iʊ/.
Below is a chart of Bolinao consonants. All the stops are unaspirated. Thevelar nasal occurs in all positions including at the beginning of a word.
| Bilabial | Dental | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | (ny)/ɲ/ | ng/ŋ/ | ||
| Plosive | Voiceless | p | t | k | ’/ʔ/ | |
| Voiced | b | d | g | |||
| Affricate | Voiceless | (ts) | (ty)/tʃ/ | |||
| Voiced | (dy)/dʒ/ | |||||
| Fricative | s | (sy)/ʃ/ | h | |||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||
| Lateral | l | (ly)/ʎ/ | ||||
A common proverb[4] from Filipino heroJose Rizal in English, "He who does not acknowledge his beginnings will not reach his destination," is translated into Bolinao, followed by the provincial languagePangasinan, the regional languageIlocano, and the original inTagalog for comparison:
| Bolinao | Si'ya a kai tanda' nin lumingap sa pinangibwatan na, kai ya makarate' sa keen na. |
| Pangasinan | Say toon agga onlingao ed pinanlapuan to, agga makasabi'd laen to. |
| Ilocano | Ti tao nga saan na ammo tumaliaw iti naggapuanna ket saan nga makadanon iti papananna. |
| Tagalog | Ang hindi marunong lumingon sa pinanggalingan ay hindi makararating sa paroroonan. |
Persons, Gary. (1978).Bolinao: A Preliminary Phonemic Statement. Summer Institute of Linguistics.
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