The Indi language or Mag-indi (or Mag-Indi Ayta) is a Sambalic language with around 5,000 speakers.[2] It is spoken within Philippine Aeta communities in San Marcelino, Zambales, and in the Pampango municipalities of Floridablanca (including in Nabuklod[3]) and Porac. There are also speakers in Lumibao and Maague-ague.[4]
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
| Fricative | s | |||||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Rhotic | ɾ | |||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ɨ | u |
| Open | a |
See also
References
- ^ Indi language at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
- ^ a b Indi at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Stone, Roger (2008). “The Sambalic Languages of Central Luzon” (PDF). Studies in Philippine Languages and Cultures. 19: 158–183. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-05-17. Retrieved 2016-03-30.
- ^ Himes, Ronald S. (2012). “The Central Luzon Group of Languages”. Oceanic Linguistics. 51 (2): 490–537. doi:10.1353/ol.2012.0013. JSTOR 23321866. S2CID 143589926.
- ^ Stone, Roger (2017). Introduction to Ayta Mag-Indi Orthography.
Further reading
- Paggamit sa Apat a Pagsabi / The Use of Four Languages (PDF). Manila: Summer Institute of Linguistics. 1991. ISBN 971-18-0185-X. – sample phrases in Indi, Kapampangan, Tagalog and English.
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