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Bolinao language
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| Bolinao language Binu-Bolinao |
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| Spoken in: | Philippines | |
| Region: | Pangasinan | |
| Total speakers: | ~50,000[1] | |
| Language family: | Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Northern Philippine Central Luzon Sambalic Bolinao language |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | phi | |
| ISO 639-3: | smk — Bolinao | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
The Bolinao language (Bolinao: Binu-Bolinao) is spoken primarily in the Pangasinense municipalities of Bolinao and Anda. It has approximately 50,000 speakers (Ethnologue 1990), making it the second most widely spoken Sambalic language.
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Bolinao has 21 phonemes: 16 consonants and five vowels. Syllable structure is relatively simple. Each syllable contains at least a consonant and a vowel.
Bolinao has five vowels. They are:
- /a/ an open front unrounded vowel similar to English ‘father’
- /ə/ (written as ‘e’) an mid central vowel pronounced as in English ‘telephone’
- /i/ a close front unrounded vowel similar to English ‘machine’
- /o/ a close-mid back rounded vowel similar to English ‘forty’
- /u/ a close back unrounded vowel similar to English ‘flute’
There are six main diphthongs: /aɪ/, /əɪ/, /oɪ/, /uɪ/, /aʊ/, and /iʊ/.
Below is a chart of Bolinao consonants. All the stops are unaspirated. The velar nasal occurs in all positions including at the beginning of a word.
| Bilabial | Dental | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
| Stops | Voiceless | p | t | k | ’ [ʔ] | |
| Voiced | b | d | g | |||
| Affricates | Voiceless | (ts) | (ty) [tʃ] | |||
| Voiced | (dy) [dʒ] | |||||
| Fricatives | s | (sy) [ʃ] | h | |||
| Nasals | m | n | (ny) [ɲ] | ng [ŋ] | ||
| Laterals | l | (ly) [lj] | ||||
| Flaps | r | |||||
| Semivowels | w | j | ||||
The Philippine national proverb[2] “He who does not acknowledge his beginnings will not reach his destination,” translated into Bolinao and followed by the original in Tagalog:
- Bolinao: “Si [tawon] kai magtanda’ lumingap sa ibwatan [na], kai ya mirate’ sa keen [na].”
- Tagalog: “Ang hindi marunong lumingon sa pinanggalingan ay hindi makararating sa paroroonan.”
- Binubolinao.com, website dedicated to the preservation of the Bolinao language, featuring a downloadable dictionary and introductory lessons
| Major Sambalic languages | ||
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| Sambal | Bolinao | ||
| Minor Sambalic languages | ||
| Mag-indi | Mag-antsi | Abellen | Ambala | Mariveleño | ||
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