Central Bontok language

{{Short description|Bontoc language of the Philippines}} {{Infobox language | name = Central Bontok | altname = Central Bontoc | states = Philippines | region = Cordillera Administrative Region | speakers = {{sigfig|19,600|2}} | date = 2007 census | ref = e25 | nativename = Bontoc, Bontoc Igorot, Kali | iso3 = lbk | glotto = cent2292 | familycolor = Austronesian | fam1 = Malayo-Polynesian | fam2 = Northern Luzon | fam3 = Meso-Cordilleran | fam4 = South-Central Cordilleran | fam5 = Central Cordilleran | fam6 = North-Central Cordilleran | fam7 = Nuclear Cordilleran | fam8 = Bontok-Kankanay | fam9 = Bontok }}

'''Central Bontok''' (or Kali) is a language of the Bontoc group from the Philippines. The 2007 census claimed there were 19,600 speakers.<ref name=e25/>

== Distribution == ''Ethnologue'' reports the following locations for Central Bontok:

Cordillera Administrative Region: Mountain Province: Bontoc municipality, Bontoc ili, Caluttit, Dalican, Guina-ang, Ma-init, Maligcong, Samoki, and Tocucan villages.

== Dialects == ''Ethnologue'' reports 5 dialects for Central Bontok: Khinina-ang, Finontok, Sinamoki, Jinallik, Minaligkhong and Tinokukan.<ref name=e25/>

== Similarities == ''Ethnologue'' reports that the language is similar to other Bontoc languages, These languages are: North Bontok, Southwest Bontok, South Bontok, and East Bontok.

==Phonology== ===Consonants=== The Guinaang dialect of Central Bontok has the following inventory of consonant phonemes:<ref name=ReidOnline>{{cite web |author1=Lawrence A. Reid |authorlink1=Lawrence A. Reid |author2=Kikusawa Ritsuko |title=Orthography |website=Talking Dictionary of Khinina-ang Bontok |url=https://htq.minpaku.ac.jp/databases/bontok/aboutOrthography.jsp |location=Osaka |publisher=National Museum of Ethnography |access-date=8 Jun 2022}}</ref> {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" |- ! colspan="2" | ! Labial ! Alveolar ! Palatal ! Velar ! Glottal |- ! rowspan="3" | Plosive ! {{small|plain voiceless}} | {{IPA link|p}} | {{IPA link|t}} | | {{IPA link|k}} | {{IPA link|ʔ}} |- ! {{small|aspirated voiceless}} | | | | {{IPA link|kʰ}} | |- ! {{small|voiced}} | {{IPA link|b}} | {{IPA link|d}} | | {{IPA link|ɡ}} | |- ! colspan="2" | Affricate | | {{IPA link|ts}} | | | |- ! colspan="2" | Fricative | {{IPA link|f}} | {{IPA link|s}} | | | {{IPA link|h}} |- ! colspan="2" | Nasal | {{IPA link|m}} | {{IPA link|n}} | | {{IPA link|ŋ}} | |- ! colspan="2" | Approximant | | {{IPA link|l}} | {{IPA link|j}} | {{IPA link|w}} | |- ! colspan="2" | Rhotic | | {{IPA link|ɾ}} | | | |} Originally (as documented in the mid 20th century), the sounds pairs {{IPA|[b ~ f]}}, {{IPA|[d ~ ts]}}, {{IPA|[g ~ kʰ]}}, {{IPA|[l ~ ɾ]}} were in complementary distribution and thus allophones of the phonemes {{IPA|/b/}}, {{IPA|/d/}}, {{IPA|/g/}}, and {{IPA|/l/}}, respectively (e.g. {{IPA|[ˈtsaɾa]}} for {{IPA|/ˈdala/}} "blood"). With the introduction of loanwords from English, Ilokano and Tagalog, these contrasts have become phonemicized. The phoneme {{IPA|/h/}} was also introduced in modern loanwords.

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== See also == * Philippine languages

Category:Languages of Mountain Province Category:South–Central Cordilleran languages