| Balangao | |
|---|---|
| Balangaw, Balangao Bontoc | |
| Native to | Philippines |
| Region | Luzon |
| Ethnicity | Balangao people |
Native speakers | (21,000 cited 2000)[1] |
Austronesian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | blw |
| Glottolog | bala1310 |
 Area where Balangao is spoken according to Ethnologue | |
Balangao orBalangaw (also calledBalangao Bontoc) is anAustronesian language spoken in northernLuzon,Philippines. It is spoken in the central area ofMountain Province, and intoTanudan municipality ofKalinga Province.
Balangao has the following phoneme inventory:[2]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ɨ | u |
| Mid | e | o | |
| Open | a |
The central vowels /a/ and /ɨ/ each have a lowered and a raised allophone, viz.[a]~[ə] for /a/, and[ə]~[ɨ] for /ɨ/.
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||
| Fricative | s | h | ||||
| Approximant | l | j | w | |||
The voiced stops /b/, /d/ and /g/ have voiceless allophones[f],[t͡ʃ],[kʰ] in syllable position.
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