Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines
| Indi |
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| Ayta, Indi, Indi Ayta, Mag-Indi Sambal |
| Mag-indi |
| Native to | Philippines |
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| Region | Floridablanca, Porac, San Marcelino |
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| Ethnicity | 30,000 (no date)[1] |
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Native speakers | (5,000 cited 1998)[2] |
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Language family | |
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| Language codes |
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| ISO 639-3 | blx |
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| Glottolog | magi1241 |
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The Indi language or Mag-indi (or Mag-Indi Ayta) is a Sambalic language with around 5,000 speakers.[2] It is spoken within Philippine Aeta communities in San Marcelino, Zambales, and in the Pampango municipalities of Floridablanca (including in Nabuklod[3]) and Porac. There are also speakers in Lumibao and Maague-ague.[4]
Phonology
Consonants
Vowels
[5]
See also
References
- ^ Indi language at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
- ^ a b Indi at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Stone, Roger (2008). "The Sambalic Languages of Central Luzon" (PDF). Studies in Philippine Languages and Cultures. 19: 158–183. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-05-17. Retrieved 2016-03-30.
- ^ Himes, Ronald S. (2012). "The Central Luzon Group of Languages". Oceanic Linguistics. 51 (2): 490–537. doi:10.1353/ol.2012.0013. JSTOR 23321866. S2CID 143589926.
- ^ Stone, Roger (2017). Introduction to Ayta Mag-Indi Orthography.
Further reading
- Paggamit sa Apat a Pagsabi / The Use of Four Languages (PDF). Manila: Summer Institute of Linguistics. 1991. ISBN 971-18-0185-X. – sample phrases in Indi, Kapampangan, Tagalog and English.
External links
For a list of words relating to Indi language, see the
Mag-Indi Ayta language category of words in
Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
