| Ibaloi | |
|---|---|
| Ibaloy | |
| Ivadoy | |
| Region | Luzon,Philippines |
| Ethnicity | Ibaloi people |
Native speakers | 120,000 (2005[needs update])[1] |
Austronesian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ibl |
| Glottolog | ibal1244 |
 Area where Ibaloi is spoken according toEthnologue | |
TheIbaloi language (ësël ivadoy,/əsəlivaˈdoj/) (Filipino:Wikang Ibaloy) belongs to theMalayo-Polynesian branch of theAustronesian languages family. It is closely related to thePangasinan language, which is spoken primarily in central and southernBenguet, and westernNueva Vizcaya and easternLa Union. Its dialects include Daklan, Kabayan, and Bokod.
Ibaloi phonemes are similar to those found in other Philippine languages with a few exceptions. Many variants of the Ibaloi tongue have naturally occurring/f/,/dʒ/ and/v/, as insifa (interrogative 'who'),ibjag ('to lose one's grip on something or someone, to let go') anddevit (a traditional wrap-around skirt)./ʃ/ is also commonly heard in theLa Trinidad valley and nearby areas, as inxima (a particle usually equivalent to the prepositionsin,on, orto depending on the sentence construction), but may be occasionally heard as/tʃ/ in some communities.[2]
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| High | i | |
| Mid | e | o |
| Close | a | |
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
| Plosive/ Affricate | voiceless | p | t | tʃ | k | ʔ |
| voiced | b | d | dʒ | ɡ | ||
| Fricative | fv | s | h | |||
| Approximant | l | j | w | |||
| Tap | ɾ | |||||
Ibaloi is one of the Philippine languages that do not exhibit [ɾ]-[d] allophony.
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