| Indi | |
|---|---|
| Ayta, Indi, Indi Ayta, Mag-Indi Sambal | |
| Mag-indi | |
| Native to | Philippines |
| Region | Floridablanca, Porac, San Marcelino |
| Ethnicity | 30,000 (no date) |
| Native speakers | (5,000 cited 1998) |
| Language family | Austronesian |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | blx |
| Glottolog | magi1241 |
The Indi language or Mag-indi (or Mag-Indi Ayta) is a Sambalic language with around 5,000 speakers. It is spoken within Philippine Aeta communities in San Marcelino, Zambales, and in the Pampango municipalities of Floridablanca (including in Nabuklod) and Porac. There are also speakers in Lumibao and Maague-ague.
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
| Fricative | s | |||||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Rhotic | ɾ | |||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ɨ | u |
| Open | a |
See also
References
- Indi language at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
- ^ 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.
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