Central Bontok (or Kali) is a language of the

Bontoc Bontoc may refer to: * Bontoc, Mountain Province, Philippines * Bontoc, Southern Leyte, Philippines * Bontoc people, an ethnic group from Central Luzon, Philippines * Bontoc language, spoken by the Bontoc people {{disambig, geo Language and ...

group from the

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. The 2007 census claimed there were 19,600 speakers.

Distribution

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'' reports the following locations for Central Bontok:

Cordillera Administrative Region The Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR; ; ), also known as the Cordillera Region and Cordillera (), is an Regions of the Philippines, administrative region in the Philippines, situated within the island of Luzon. It is the only Landlocked co ...

Mountain Province Mountain Province (; ; ; ; ; ) is a landlocked province of the Philippines in the Cordillera Administrative Region in Luzon. Its capital is Bontoc while Bauko is the largest municipality. Mountain Province was formerly referred to as Mountain ...

: Bontoc municipality, Bontoc ili, Caluttit, Dalican, Guina-ang, Ma-init, Maligcong, Samoki, and Tocucan villages.

Dialects

''Ethnologue'' reports 5 dialects for Central Bontok: Khinina-ang, Finontok, Sinamoki, Jinallik, Minaligkhong and Tinokukan.

Similarities

''Ethnologue'' reports that the language is similar to other

Bontoc language Bontoc (Bontok) is a macrolanguage native to the indigenous Bontoc people of the Mountain Province, in the northern part of the Philippines. Specific languages ''Ethnologue'' reports the following locations for each of the five Bontok languag ...

s, These languages are: North Bontok, Southwest Bontok, South Bontok, and East Bontok.

Phonology

Consonants

The Guinaang dialect of Central Bontok has the following inventory of consonant phonemes: Originally (as documented in the mid 20th century), the sounds pairs , , , were in complementary distribution and thus

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s of the phonemes , , , and , respectively (e.g. for "blood"). With the introduction of loanwords from English, Ilokano and Tagalog, these contrasts have become phonemicized. The phoneme was also introduced in modern loanwords.

Distribution

Dialects

Similarities

Phonology

Consonants

References

See also