Buhid language

Austronesian language spoken in Philippines

The Buhid language (Buhid: ᝊᝓᝑᝒ) is a language spoken by Mangyans in the island of Mindoro, Philippines. It is divided into eastern and western dialects.

It uses the Buhid script, which is encoded in the Unicode-Block Buhid (Buid) (1740–175F).

Distribution

Barbian (1977)^[2] lists the following locations.

• Malfalon, Calintaan, Occidental Mindoro
• Barrio Rambida, Socorro, Oriental Mindoro
• Bato Eli, Barrio Monte Claro, San José Pandurucan (on the southern bank of the Bugsanga (Bisanga) River)
• Barrio Batangan, Panaytayan, Mansalay, Oriental Mindoro

Phonology

Consonants

Vowels

• Sounds /k, ɡ/ can be heard as fricatives [x, ɣ] in intervocalic position.^[3]

References

1. Buhid at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
2. Barbian, Karl-Josef. 1977. English-Mangyan vocabulary. Cebu City: University of San Carlos.
3. Barham, R. Marie (1958). The phonemes of the Buhid (Mangyan) language of Eastern Mindoro, Philippines. Sydney: University of Sydney.

Sources

• Barham, R. Marie. 1958. The phonemes of the Buhid (Mangyan) language of Eastern Mindoro, Philippines. Studies in Philippine linguistics 4-9. 4-9.
• Pennoyer, F. Douglas. 1980. "Buhid and Tawbuid: A new subgrouping Mindoro, Philippines." In Paz B. Naylor (ed.), Austronesian studies: Papers from the Second Eastern Conference on Austronesian languages, 265-271. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan: Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies.

External links

• Mangyan Heritage Center