Buhid language

Buhid
Buhid
ᝊᝓᝑᝒ
Native to	Philippines
Region	Mimaropa
Native speakers	(8,000 cited 1991)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Greater Central Philippine South Mangyan Buhid; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Buhid
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bku
Glottolog	buhi1245

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

References

Buhid at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Barbian, Karl-Josef. 1977. English-Mangyan vocabulary. Cebu City: University of San Carlos.

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

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[e18-1] Buhid at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[Barbian1977-2] Barbian, Karl-Josef. 1977. English-Mangyan vocabulary. Cebu City: University of San Carlos.