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Batanic languages

{{short description|Subgroup of the Austronesian language family}}

{{Infobox language family

|name=Batanic

|map=The Batanic languages.png

|mapcaption=Geographic distribution of the Batanic languages

|altname=Bashiic, Ivatanic

|region=Batanes and Orchid Island

|familycolor=Austronesian

|fam2=Malayo-Polynesian

|fam3=Philippine (?)

|glotto=bata1315

|glottorefname=Batanic

}}

The Batanic languages (sometimes also called Bashiic or Ivatanic) are a dialect cluster of the Austronesian language family. They are spoken on Babuyan Island, just north of Luzon; three of the Batanes Islands, between the Philippines and Taiwan; and on Orchid Island of southern Taiwan.

The varieties in the Philippines are called Ivatan (also spelled Ibatan), or are named Babuyan, Batan, or Itbayat after their islands, while the variety of Taiwan is called Yami or Tao.

Proto-Batanic has been reconstructed by Yang (2002).{{Cite thesis |last=Yang |first=Doris Hsiao-Fang |title=Subgrouping and Reconstruction of Batanic Languages |date=2002 |degree=MA |publisher=Providence University |url=https://zorc.net/RDZorc/BASHIIC~BATANIC/Yang-2002=Proto-Batanic.pdf}}

Classification

Malcolm Ross (2005) and Roger Blench (2015) list four languages:{{Cite journal |last=Ross |first=Malcolm |date=2005 |title=The Batanic Languages in Relation to the Early History of the Malayo-Polynesian Subgroup of Austronesian |url=https://mocfile.moc.gov.tw/files/201807/1.001-024.pdf |journal=Journal of Austronesian Studies |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=1–24}}{{Cite conference |last=Blench |first=Roger |date=2015 |title=A New Look at Bashiic, a Divergent Subgroup of Malayopolynesian |url=https://www.academia.edu/14178249/A_new_look_at_Bashiic_a_divergent_subgroup_of_Malayopolynesian |conference=Prepared for ICAL XIII, Taipei 18–23 July, 2015, Academia Sinica |type=Draft |via=Academia.edu}}

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Moriguchi (1983) classifies the Batanic languages as follows.{{Cite book |last=Moriguchi |first=Tsunekazu |title=Batan Island and Northern Luzon: Archaeological, Ethnographical and Linguistic Survey |date=1983 |publisher=Kumamoto University |editor-last=Shirakihara |editor-first=Kazumi |location=Kumamoto |pages=205–253 |chapter=A Preliminary Report on Ivatan Dialects}}

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According to Paul Jen-kuei Li (2000),{{Cite book |last=Li |first=Paul Jen-kuei |title=The Fifth International Symposium on Languages and Linguistics |date=2000 |publisher=Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City University of Social Sciences and Humanities |location=Hochiminh City |pages=175–176 |chapter=Subgrouping of the Batanic Languages |chapter-url=http://sealang.net/sala/archives/pdf8/li2000subgrouping.pdf}} Yami is most closely related to Itbayat. Among the Batanic languages, Iraralay is the most conservative.

The Batanic languages are frequently included with the Philippine languages. However, there is no full consensus on this, and some consider them a primary branch of the Malayo-Polynesian languages. Blench concludes that Batanic languages have been splitting from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian for a long time and contain many roots which are not standard Austronesian. The relationship between Batanic and Northern Luzon languages is still uncertain.

References

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Further reading

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  • {{Cite journal |last=Li |first=Paul Jen-kuei |date=2001 |title=The Dispersal of the Formosan Aborigines in Taiwan |url=http://www.ling.sinica.edu.tw/files/publication/j2001_1_15_4392.pdf |journal=Language and Linguistics |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=271–278 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130513032553/http://www.ling.sinica.edu.tw/files/publication/j2001_1_15_4392.pdf |archive-date=13 May 2013}}

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External links

  • [https://www.ethnologue.com/subgroups/bashiic Bashiic languages] at Ethnologue (23rd ed., 2020).

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