Kalinga Butbut language

Butbut Kalinga
Native to	Cordillera Administrative Region
Native speakers	15,000 (2008)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Northern Luzon Meso-Cordilleran Central Cordilleran Kalinga-Itneg Butbut Kalinga
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kyb
Glottolog	butb1235

Butbut Kalinga is a language of the Kalinga dialect continuum. Ethnologue reports 15,000 speakers for the language and 1,000 monolinguists.

Distribution

Ethnologue reports that Butbut Kalinga is spoken in the following areas:

Cordillera Administrative Region: Kalinga province: Tinglayan municipality: Bugnay, Buscalan, Butbut Proper, Loccong, and Ngibat villages; Tabuk City, Dinongsay, Ileb, Kataw, Lacnog, and Pakak villages; Rizal Municipality: Andaraya, Anonang, Bua, and Malapiat villages.

Similarities

Ethnologue reports the following similarities with other Philippine languages, Namely: Limos Kalinga, Ilocano, Tanudan Kalinga, Bangad Kalinga (Southern Kalinga).

Lexical similarities with other languages

Ethnologue reports that the language is Lexically similar with some languages and dialects:

82% of Southern Kalinga and 78% with Guina-ang (a dialect of Tanudan Kalinga), and Tanudan Kalinga.

Typology

Ethnologue reports the following typology for this language:

VSO; Prepositions; Genitives after noun heads; articles normally before adjectives, numerals and noun heads; question-word in sentence-initial position; 3 maximum suffixes;

word order distinguishes subjects; objects and indirect objects, given and new information, topic and comment; affixes do not indicate case of noun phrases; verb affixes mark number; passives; causatives; comparatives; CV, CVC; nontonal.

Language use

This language is used in Home, community, church. Used by all. Positive attitudes. Most also use Ilocano, which is acquired through school, travel, media, and use in church.

See also

• Ilocano language
• Kalinga language
• Ilocano people