Bukid
Binukid
Native to	Philippines
Region	most parts ofBukidnonprovince,Mindanao
Native speakers	168,234 (2010)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Greater Central Philippine Manobo North Bukid
Dialects	Talaandig
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bkd
Glottolog	binu1244
Area where Binukid is spoken

TheBukid language,Binukid,Binokid orBukidnon, is anAustronesian language spoken byindigenous peoples ofNorthern Mindanao in the southernPhilippines. The wordBukid means 'mountain' or 'highland' whileBinukid means 'in the manner, or style, of the mountain or highland'.In Bukidnon province, it is referred to asHigaonon.^{[citation needed]}

Binukid is spoken in the north of the islandMindanao in southern Philippines; it is spoken in the following areas:^[2]

• central and northernBukidnon Province
• northeasternLanao del Norte Province
• Misamis Oriental Province:Cagayan de Oro area including southwest ofGingoog Bay
• very small border strip ofLanao del Sur

Binukid has many dialects, but there ismutual intelligibility. The dialect ofMalaybalay, in thePulangi area, is considered to be theprestige andstandard variety.^[3]

Binukid consists of twenty segmentalphonemes and onesuprasegmental phoneme.^[4] Thesyllable is the basic unit of word structure, and each syllable consists of one vowel and one or two consonants only, arranged in the following patterns: CV, CVC and, in some instances, CCV (which is found mostly inSpanish loanwords). A word consists of one or more of these syllables.

There are 16consonants in Binukid. In some instances, there is avoiceless alveolo-palatal affricate[t͡ɕ] which appears in Spanish loanwords.

The phoneme[ɾ] is sometimes trilled which is used in intervocalic position or in Spanish loanwords by some speakers. All consonants except[h] are found in initial and final position in the syllable;[h] is found only syllable-initial.

There are generally fourvowels in Binukid.^[4]

There is a suprasegmental phoneme ofstress which usually falls on the penultimate syllable. Stress give contrast to words of the same segmental phonemes; for examplebeleng[ˈbɘlɘŋ] means 'surprise' whilebeléng[bɘˈlɘŋ] means 'drunk'. Long words may have more than one stress:balángkawítan[bäˌläŋkaˈwitän] 'rooster'. Stress commonly shifts when suffixes are added to the word (as inkahibeléngan 'mysterious') or when the speaker wishes to emphasize the word.

The following set of pronouns are the pronouns found in the Bukid language. The/d/-final allomorphs of the vowel-final NOM or GEN pronouns are used almost exclusively beforeen ('already'), a bound adverbial.^[5]

TheLatin script is used in writing the language. In the dictionary by theLSP and SIL (1992:x–xi), the alphabet employed consists of the following letters which correspond to one phoneme. Word-initial and word-final glottal stops are not written but glottal stops following a consonant is marked by a hyphen. Example:hab-ung[ˈhäbʔuŋ] 'mildew'. The phoneme[ŋ] is represented by a digraph⟨ng⟩, which is sometimes considered a separate letter.

Other letters, such as c, f, j, q, and z, are used in proper nouns or loanwords that have not had their spellings altered.

Suprasegmental phonemes andglottalization are featured in writing Binukid.^[6] Stress can be indicated by an acute accent⟨′⟩. A grave accent⟨`⟩ can be marked over syllable- or word-final vowel to indicate a following glottal stop. If stress is shown on the final letter and there is a following glottal stop, a circumflex accent⟨ˆ⟩ can be used. There is no marking for words whose stress falls on the penultimate syllable and without a secondary stress.

Examples:

• sala[ˈsälä] 'living room'
• salà[ˈsäläʔ] 'small cut'
• salâ[säˈläʔ] 'sin'
• pahid[ˈpähid] 'to wipe'
• pahíd[päˈhid] 'shrub'
• balángkawítan[bäˌläŋkaˈwitän] 'rooster'
• talètè[täˈlɘʔtɘʔ] 'lizard'

The plural particle markermanga is writtenmga, following accepted Philippine usage.

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