| Butuanon | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Philippines |
| Ethnicity | Butuanons |
Native speakers | 72,000 (2005[needs update])[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | btw |
| Glottolog | butu1244 |
Butuanon (Binutwanon,[binutwɐnʊn]) is anAustronesian language spoken by theButuanon people inAgusan del Norte andAgusan del Sur, with some native speakers inMisamis Oriental andSurigao del Norte. It is a part of theBisayan language family and is closely related to otherPhilippine languages. As of 2007, Butuanon is believed to be spoken by fewer than 500 younger speakers inButuan itself.[2]
Butuanon is very closely related to theTausug language of distantSulu and theSurigaonon language of neighboring provincesSurigao del Sur andSurigao del Norte.
Butuanon has three vowels: /a/, /i/, and /u/, with phonemic length.
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i iː | u uː | |
| Open | a aː |
| Bilabial | Dental | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||
| Stop | p | b | t | d | k | ɡ | ʔ | |||
| Fricative | s | h | ||||||||
| Approximant (Lateral) | j | w | ||||||||
| l | ||||||||||
| Rhotic | ɾ | |||||||||
Butuanon has four triggers:
| direct | indirect | oblique | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| general | ang | hong | sa[a] | |
| personal | singular | si | ni | kang |
| plural | sinda | ninda | kanda | |
| direct | indirect | oblique | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| postposed | preposed | |||||
| 1st | singular | ako | ko[a] | ako | kanako | |
| plural | exclusive | kami | namo | amo | kanamo | |
| inclusive | kita | ta | ato | kanato | ||
| 2nd | singular | ikaw | mo | imo | kanimo | |
| plural | kamo | niyo | iyo | kaniyo | ||
| 3rd | singular | siya | niya | iya | kaniya | |
| plural | sila | nila | ila | kanila | ||
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