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Itbayat
Ibatan
Itbayaten
Native to	Philippines
Region	Itbayat Island
Ethnicity	Ivatan people Yami people
Native speakers	(3,500 cited 1996 census)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Batanic Yami–Itbayat Itbayat
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	itba1237
Itbayat and the other Batanic languages

The Itbayat language or Itbayaten (also known generically as Ibatan) is an Austronesian language, in the Batanic group, spoken on Itbayat Island in the Batanes Islands, Philippines.

Phonology

Vowels

/a, ɜ, i, o/

Vowels are contrasted between long and short vowels, for example as seen in the words tokod ('support') and tookod ('a kind of yam').

Consonants

• /f/ is only used in loanwords but tends to become /p/.

Grammar

Pronouns

The following set of pronouns is found in the Itbayat language.

References

1. Ivatan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. ^ Yamada, Yukihiro (2002). Itbayat–English Dictionary (PDF). ELPR Publications Series A3-006. hdl:10108/75457.

Further reading

• Yamada, Yukihiro (2014). A Grammar of the Itbayat Language of the Philippines. Himeji, Japan.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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