Mariveleño (also known as Magbikin,
Bataan Ayta, or Magbukun Ayta) is a
Sambalic language. It has around 500 speakers (Wurm 2000) and is spoken within an
Aeta
The Aeta (Ayta ), Agta, or Dumagat, are collective terms for several Filipino indigenous peoples who live in various parts of the island of Luzon in the Philippines. They are considered to be part of the Negrito ethnic groups and share common ...
community in
Mariveles
Mariveles, officially the Municipality of Mariveles ( tl, Bayan ng Mariveles), is a first class municipality in the province of Bataan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 149,879 people.
History
Founded as a ''p ...
in the
Philippines
The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no),
* bik, Republika kan Filipinas
* ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas
* cbk, República de Filipinas
* hil, Republ ...
.
Geographic distribution
Reid (1994)
reports the following Magbikin locations.
*Kanáwon,
Morong, Bataan
Morong, officially the Municipality of Morong ( tl, Bayan ng Morong), is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Bataan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 35,394 people.
The municipality is home to the Subic ...
*Bayanbayanan, Magbikin,
Mariveles, Bataan
Himes (2012: 491)
also collected Magbukun data from the two locations of:
*Biaan,
Mariveles, Bataan
*Canawan,
Morong, Bataan
Morong, officially the Municipality of Morong ( tl, Bayan ng Morong), is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Bataan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 35,394 people.
The municipality is home to the Subic ...
Cabanding (2014), citing Neil (2012), reports the following Magbukon locations in
Bataan Province.
*Dangcol,
Balanga, Bataan
*Kinaragan,
Limay, Bataan
*Kanawan,
Morong, Bataan
Morong, officially the Municipality of Morong ( tl, Bayan ng Morong), is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Bataan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 35,394 people.
The municipality is home to the Subic ...
*Pita, Bayan-bayanan in
Orion, Bataan
Orion, officially the Municipality of Orion (formerly Udyong), ( tl, Bayan ng Orion), is a 2nd class municipality in the province of Bataan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 60,771 people.
History 2019 Orion fire ...
*Pag-asa,
Orani, Bataan
Orani, officially the Municipality of Orani ( tl, Bayan ng Orani), is a 1st class municipality in the province of Bataan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 70,342 people.
Geography
Orani is from Balanga and n ...
*Ulingan, Matanglaw, and Magduhat (all in
Bagac, Bataan)
*Sitio Luoban in
Samal, Bataan
*Bangkal in
Abucay, Bataan
See also
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Languages of the Philippines
There are some 120 to 187 languages spoken in the Philippines, depending on the method of classification. Almost all are Malayo-Polynesian languages native to the archipelago. A number of Spanish-influenced creole varieties generally called C ...
References
*Cabanding, Monica. 2014
The Deictic Demonstratives of Ayta Magbukun ''The Philippines ESL Journal'', vol. 13.
*Neil, David R. 2012. ''An ethnographic study of the Magbukon literary arts among the Ayta of Bataan''. Abucay, Bataan: Bataan Peninsula State University.
*Neil, David R. 2014
The Magbukon Literary Arts among the Aetas of Bataan, Philippines ''IAMURE International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research'', Vol. 11 No. 1 October 2014. (Online)
Further reading
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*Chrétien, Douglas C. (1951). The dialect of the Sierra de Mariveles Negritos. (University of California Publications in Linguistics, 4.2.) Berkeley/Los Angeles: Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 109pp.
*Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016)
"Bataan Ayta" ''
Glottolog 2.7''. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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*Reed, W. A. 1904. Negritos of Zambales. (Ethnological Survey Publications, 2(1).) Manila: Bureau of Public Printing. 100pp.
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*Schadenberg, A. (1880). Ueber die Negritos in den Philippinen. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie XII. 133-172.
*Wimbish, John. (1986). The languages of the Zambales mountains: A Philippine lexicostatistic study. In University of North Dakota Session, 133-142. Grand Forks, North Dakota: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
Endangered Austronesian languages
Sambalic languages
Aeta languages
Languages of Bataan
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