Botolan language

The Ayta people of sitio Villar, Botolan, and sitio Kakilingan, Santa Fe, Cabangan also speak a Botolan dialect with some unique lexical items.{{Cite journal |last=Himes |first=Ronald S. |date=2012 |title=The Central Luzon Group of Languages |journal=Oceanic Linguistics |volume=51 |issue=2 |pages=490–537|jstor=23321866 |doi=10.1353/ol.2012.0013 }}

Ethnologue reports Ayta Hambali (Hambali Botolan), Sambali Botolan as dialects of Sambal Botolan. Among themselves, Ayta Hambali reportedly use some words that are similar to Ayta, Mag-Anchi.

Botolan has 20 phonemes: 16 consonants and four vowels. Syllable structure is relatively simple. Each syllable contains at least a consonant and a vowel.{{citation needed|date=October 2015}}

Botolan has four vowels. They are:

• /a/ an open central unrounded vowel similar to English father
• /e/ a close-mid front unrounded vowel similar to German {{Lang|de|Elefant}}
• /i/ a close front unrounded vowel similar to English machine
• /u/ (written as ‘o’) a close back unrounded vowel similar to English flute

There are five main diphthongs: {{IPA|/aɪ/}}, {{IPA|/uɪ/}}, {{IPA|/aʊ/}}, /ij/, and {{IPA|/iʊ/}}.

Below is a chart of Botolan consonants. All the stops are unaspirated. The velar nasal occurs in all positions including at the beginning of a word.

Note: Consonants {{IPA|/d/}} and {{IPA|/ɾ/}} can sometimes interchange as they were once allophones.

Stress is phonemic in Botolan. Word stress is very important; it differentiates homonyms, e.g. {{Lang|sbl|hikó}} ('I') and {{Lang|sbl|híko}} ('elbow').

Many words pronounced with {{IPA|/s/}} and {{IPA|/ɡ/}} in Tagalog have {{IPA|/h/}} and {{IPA|/j/}}, respectively, in their cognates in Botolan. Compare {{Lang|sbl|hiko}} and {{Lang|sbl|bayo}} with the Tagalog {{Lang|tl|siko}} and {{Lang|tl|bago}}.

{{Poem quote|text={{Lang|sbl|Tatay nawen ya anti ha katatag-ayan,

Hay ngalan mo ay igalang dayi nin kaganawan.

Andawaten nawen ya tampol kayna dayin mag-arí.

Mangyari dayi ya kalabayan mo bayri ha babon lotá

Bilang ombayro ha katatag-ayan.

Hapa-eg ay biyan mo kayin pamamangan ya

angka-ilanganen nawen.

Patawaren mo kayi ha kawkasalanan

nawen bilang pamatawad nawen ha nakapagkasalanan konnawen.

Agmo kayi biyan ma-irap ya pagsobok boy

ipakarayó mo kayi koni Satanas.}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.christusrex.org/www1/pater/JPN-sambal-botolan.html |title=Botolan Sambal |access-date=2007-09-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929140636/http://www.christusrex.org/www1/pater/JPN-sambal-botolan.html# |archive-date=2007-09-29 |url-status=dead }}}}

Below is a translation in Botolan of the Philippine national proverb{{Cite web |url=http://iloko.tripod.com/philproverb.html |title=National Philippine Proverb in Various Philippine Languages |website=Carl Rubino's homepage}} "He who does not acknowledge his beginnings will not reach his destination," followed by the original in Tagalog.

• Botolan: {{Lang|sbl|Hay ahe tanda nin nanlek ha pinangibatan, ay ahe makalateng ha lalakwen.}}
• Tagalog: {{Lang|tl|Ang hindi marunong lumingon sa pinanggalingan ay hindi makararating sa paroroonan.}}

• Languages of the Philippines

{{reflist}}

• {{cite book |last1=Antworth |first1=Evan L. |title=Grammatical Sketch of Botolan Sambal |date=1979 |publisher=Linguistic Society of the Philippines |location=Manila |url=https://www.sil.org/resources/archives/26078 |language=en}}

• [http://iloko.tripod.com/BotolanSambal.htm Grammar sketch of Botolan found on Carl Rubino's homepage]
• [http://globalrecordings.net/program/C08310 Sample recordings from the GRN Network], in Botolan
• [http://www.seghea.com/pat/bible/bsambal.html Hay Halita nin Diyos], Bible verses in Botolan

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